- Demo is deployed and accessible at
/demos/headless-simpleon the dashboard host - Agent backend is healthy (
/api/health);OPENAI_API_KEYis set on Railway;LANGGRAPH_DEPLOYMENT_URLpoints at a LangGraph deployment exposing the neutralsample_agentgraph - The demo wires
agent="headless-simple"at/api/copilotkit(neutral assistant cell) - Note: the demo source contains no
data-testidattributes. Checks below rely on verbatim visible text, role/button selectors, and Tailwind utility-class structure
- Navigate to
/demos/headless-simple; verify the page renders within 3s with a centered card (max-width 4xl) on abg-gray-50background - Verify the custom heading "Headless Chat (Simple)" is visible (an
<h1>— NOT a<CopilotChat />primitive) - Verify the empty-state text "No messages yet. Say hi!" is rendered inside the message panel
- Verify the custom composer renders below the message panel: a
<textarea>with placeholder "Type a message. Ask me to 'show a card about cats'." and a disabled<button>labeled "Send" - Verify the Send button is disabled while the textarea is empty (attribute
disabledpresent, visualopacity-50)
- Confirm there is no
.copilotKitChat,.copilotKitInput, or.copilotKitMessageselement in the DOM — the demo is built directly onuseAgentand does not render<CopilotChat /> - Type "Hello" in the textarea; verify the Send button becomes enabled (no longer
disabled) and its background is the solid blue utilitybg-blue-600 - Press
Enter(without Shift); verify the message submits, the textarea clears, and the user bubble appears right-aligned withbg-blue-600 text-whiterounded styling and max-width 80% - Type another message and press
Shift+Enter; verify a newline is inserted inside the textarea and the message is NOT submitted
- Send "Hi"; verify within 10s:
- A user bubble appears (right-aligned, blue, verbatim "Hi")
- A transient "Agent is thinking..." text indicator appears while
agent.isRunningis true - An assistant bubble appears left-aligned with
bg-gray-100 text-gray-900rounded styling, max-width 90%, containing the assistant's text response
- After the response settles, verify the "Agent is thinking..." indicator is gone (
agent.isRunningflipped false) and the Send button re-enables when the textarea has content
- Send "Show a card about cats" (or "show a card titled Cats with a body about cats")
- Within 15s verify the assistant invokes the
show_cardfrontend tool and aShowCardrenders inline inside the assistant bubble area with:- A bold title (e.g. "Cats") in
font-semibold text-gray-900 - A body paragraph in
text-sm text-gray-700withwhitespace-pre-wrap - The card is wrapped in a white rounded container with
border border-gray-300and a small shadow
- A bold title (e.g. "Cats") in
- Verify the tool call was routed through
copilotkit.runAgent({ agent })(frontend tools registered viauseComponentreach the agent) — confirm by the card rendering at all; if the route had usedagent.runAgent()directly the card would not appear
- Send a second message (e.g. "Thanks!"); verify the user bubble is appended below the prior assistant content and a second assistant bubble appears without clearing or rearranging prior messages
- Verify the message list preserves chronological order (oldest at top, newest at bottom) and the empty-state "No messages yet. Say hi!" text is gone after the first send
- With the textarea empty or whitespace-only, confirm Enter is a no-op — no user bubble appears, no "Agent is thinking..." indicator
- While
agent.isRunningis true (long response streaming), verify:- The Send button is
disabled - Pressing Enter in the textarea is a no-op (the
send()guardif (!text || agent.isRunning) return;blocks concurrent sends)
- The Send button is
- Send a ~500-character message; verify the user bubble wraps within its 80% max-width without horizontal scroll and the layout does not break
- With the backend stopped, send a message; verify the promise rejection is swallowed silently (
.catch(() => {})) and no uncaught error is surfaced in DevTools → Console, but the user bubble remains andagent.isRunningeventually returns false
- Page loads within 3 seconds; first assistant response within 10 seconds;
show_cardrenders within 15 seconds of the triggering prompt - Custom composer (textarea + Send button) renders — no default CopilotChat DOM surfaces
- User bubbles: right-aligned,
bg-blue-600 text-white, max-width 80% - Assistant bubbles: left-aligned,
bg-gray-100 text-gray-900, max-width 90% - Frontend
useComponenttool (show_card) renders inline viauseRenderToolCallinside the assistant message - No uncaught console errors during any flow above