Aadi

Approval Inbox

Component 1

About

One inbox for everything agents are waiting on: commands, edits, fetches and deletes across runs, each with its tool, run and age, Allow and Deny per row or in bulk, filters, and A, D and X shortcuts.

Built with React and Tailwind. Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable: your agent adds Approval Inbox to your project and fits it to your theme.

Code

How Approval Inbox is used: the demo's code. The component's own source comes with a free account.

Usage.tsx

"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import { ApprovalInbox, PendingApproval } from "@/components/ui/approval-inbox"

const FIT_CSS = "html,body{overflow:hidden}[data-fit-small] [data-fit-hide]{display:none!important}"

/**
 * 21st shows a demo in a small frame: about 674 by 421 on a component page, 358 by 224 on a
 * phone and 245 by 139 on a profile card. A demo taller than its frame gets scrollbars, which
 * render white on dark pages. FitFrame fills the frame exactly instead.
 *
 * - "scale": the content shrinks until it fits, centered. For visuals such as orbs.
 * - "crop": the content stays at full size from the top and fades out at the bottom. For text
 *   that streams in, where a changing scale would make the page breathe.
 *
 * `minWidth` lays out a wide demo (a table, a two column panel) at that width and scales it down
 * to the frame, instead of letting it collapse to a narrow layout. The frame centers it, so it
 * shrinks evenly on both sides.
 *
 * Anything marked `data-fit-hide` (state buttons, the chatcn.dev line) drops out in frames
 * shorter than `hideBelow`, so a profile card shows the visual alone.
 */
function FitFrame({
  children,
  mode = "scale",
  hideBelow = 360,
  minWidth,
}: {
  children: React.ReactNode
  mode?: "scale" | "crop"
  hideBelow?: number
  minWidth?: string
}) {
  const content = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
  const [cropped, setCropped] = React.useState(false)

  React.useLayoutEffect(() => {
    const el = content.current
    if (!el) return
    const measure = () => {
      const vw = window.innerWidth
      const vh = window.innerHeight
      el.toggleAttribute("data-fit-small", vh < hideBelow)
      // Layout sizes ignore the transform, so measuring never feeds back.
      const w = Math.max(el.offsetWidth, el.scrollWidth)
      const h = Math.max(el.offsetHeight, el.scrollHeight)
      const scale = mode === "scale" ? Math.min(1, vw / w, vh / h) : 1
      el.style.transform = scale < 1 ? `scale(${scale})` : ""
      setCropped(mode === "crop" && h > vh + 1)
    }
    measure()
    const observer = new ResizeObserver(measure)
    observer.observe(el)
    // Content that changes inside a fixed width box (a headline that cycles words) never resizes
    // the box itself, so changes below it measure again on the next frame.
    let frame = 0
    const mutations = new MutationObserver(() => {
      cancelAnimationFrame(frame)
      frame = requestAnimationFrame(measure)
    })
    mutations.observe(el, { subtree: true, childList: true, characterData: true })
    window.addEventListener("resize", measure)
    return () => {
      observer.disconnect()
      mutations.disconnect()
      cancelAnimationFrame(frame)
      window.removeEventListener("resize", measure)
    }
  }, [mode, hideBelow])

  const fade = "linear-gradient(to bottom, #000 calc(100% - 40px), transparent)"
  return (
    <div
      className="flex w-full justify-center overflow-hidden"
      style={{
        height: "100dvh",
        alignItems: mode === "crop" ? "flex-start" : "center",
        maskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
        WebkitMaskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
      }}
    >
      <style>{FIT_CSS}</style>
      <div
        ref={content}
        className="w-full shrink-0"
        style={{ transformOrigin: mode === "crop" ? "top center" : "center", minWidth }}
      >
        {children}
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

// The demo's times count back from the moment it renders. Read through `performance`, which
// Next.js allows while it prerenders a page; `Date.now()` during render fails the build there.
const demoNow = () => performance.timeOrigin + performance.now()

const minute = 60_000

function fixtures(now: number): PendingApproval[] {
  return [
    {
      id: "a1",
      runId: "r1",
      runTitle: "Fix flaky checkout test",
      tool: "run_command",
      title: "Run",
      detail: "pnpm db:migrate --env preview",
      reason:
        "The checkout test fails because the preview database is missing the orders.idempotency_key column. Migrating adds it.",
      input: { command: "pnpm db:migrate --env preview", cwd: "apps/web", timeout_ms: 120000 },
      requestedAt: now - 2 * minute,
    },
    {
      id: "a2",
      runId: "r1",
      runTitle: "Fix flaky checkout test",
      tool: "edit_file",
      title: "Edit",
      detail: "tests/e2e/checkout.spec.ts",
      reason: "Replace the fixed 2 s wait with an assertion on the order confirmation heading.",
      input: {
        path: "tests/e2e/checkout.spec.ts",
        old: "await page.waitForTimeout(2000)",
        new: 'await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Order confirmed" })).toBeVisible()',
      },
      requestedAt: now - 1 * minute,
    },
    {
      id: "a3",
      runId: "r2",
      runTitle: "Upgrade to Next.js 16.4",
      tool: "run_command",
      title: "Run",
      detail: "pnpm add next@16.4.2 react@19.3.1",
      reason: "Bumps Next.js and React together so the peer ranges line up.",
      input: { command: "pnpm add next@16.4.2 react@19.3.1", cwd: "." },
      requestedAt: now - 6 * minute,
    },
    {
      id: "a4",
      runId: "r3",
      runTitle: "Research vector databases",
      tool: "web_fetch",
      title: "Open",
      detail: "turbopuffer.com/docs/pricing",
      reason: "The pricing page has the per-GB storage cost the comparison table is missing.",
      input: { url: "https://turbopuffer.com/docs/pricing" },
      requestedAt: now - 12 * minute,
    },
    {
      id: "a5",
      runId: "r2",
      runTitle: "Upgrade to Next.js 16.4",
      tool: "delete_file",
      title: "Delete",
      detail: "src/middleware.ts",
      reason:
        "Next.js 16 renames middleware to proxy. The new src/proxy.ts already has the same code.",
      input: { path: "src/middleware.ts" },
      requestedAt: now - 14 * minute,
    },
  ]
}

function ApprovalInboxDemo() {
  const [now] = React.useState(() => demoNow())
  const [items, setItems] = React.useState(() => fixtures(now))
  const [log, setLog] = React.useState<string>()
  const remove = (ids: string[]) => setItems((prev) => prev.filter((a) => !ids.includes(a.id)))

  return (
    <div className="flex w-full max-w-2xl flex-col gap-3">
      <ApprovalInbox
        approvals={items}
        onApprove={(ids, scope) => {
          remove(ids)
          setLog(
            `Allowed ${ids.length} ${ids.length === 1 ? "request" : "requests"}${scope === "always" ? " for good" : ""}`,
          )
        }}
        onDeny={(ids, reason) => {
          remove(ids)
          setLog(`Denied ${ids.length}${reason ? `: ${reason}` : ""}`)
        }}
      />
      <div className="flex min-h-7 items-center justify-between gap-3 px-1">
        <div className="text-[0.8125rem]/[1.25rem] text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle) truncate" aria-live="polite">
          {log}
        </div>
        {items.length < 5 ? (
          <button
            type="button"
            onClick={() => {
              setItems(fixtures(now))
              setLog(undefined)
            }}
            className="chatcn-focus rounded-(--chatcn-radius-sm) text-[0.8125rem]/[1.25rem] text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle) hover:text-(color:--chatcn-fg) shrink-0 underline underline-offset-4 transition-colors"
          >
            Reset requests
          </button>
        ) : null}
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

/** The line under each 21st demo that points back to the kit. */
function MoreOn({ slug, children }: { slug: string; children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <p data-fit-hide className="text-[0.75rem]/[1rem] text-(color:--chatcn-fg-faint) text-center text-balance">
      {children}{" "}
      <a
        href={`https://chatcn.dev/docs/components/${slug}`}
        target="_blank"
        rel="noopener"
        className="text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle) hover:text-(color:--chatcn-fg) underline underline-offset-2"
      >
        chatcn.dev
      </a>
    </p>
  )
}

/** The kit's own example, framed for the 21st preview. */
export default function ApprovalInboxPreview() {
  return (
    <FitFrame minWidth="38rem">
      <div className="flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center gap-4 p-6">
        <div className="flex w-full max-w-2xl justify-center">
          <ApprovalInboxDemo />
        </div>
        <MoreOn slug="approval-inbox">Approvals an agent is waiting on, with keyboard shortcuts. On</MoreOn>
      </div>
    </FitFrame>
  )
}

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