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Tool Call

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About

Tool calls from an AI agent as they happen: input streams in, an edit asks for approval with Allow and Deny, a command shows a live timer, and each result folds down to its output and timing.

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

Code

How Tool Call 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 { CopyButton, ToolCall, ToolCallCode, ToolCallProps, ToolCallSection, ToolDisplayState } from "@/components/ui/tool-call"

/** Opens with the search done and the file being read, so the first frame is mid run. */
const START_MS = 1400

/** How long a choice holds a tour before it carries on. */
const RESUME_MS = 1800

/** True until `RESUME_MS` after the last `hold()`, for tours with their own state. */
function useHold() {
  const [held, setHeld] = React.useState(false)
  const timer = React.useRef(0)
  React.useEffect(() => () => window.clearTimeout(timer.current), [])
  const hold = React.useCallback(() => {
    setHeld(true)
    window.clearTimeout(timer.current)
    timer.current = window.setTimeout(() => setHeld(false), RESUME_MS)
  }, [])
  return [held, hold] as const
}

const reducedMotion = () => window.matchMedia("(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)").matches

const LOOP_MS = 9_600

/**
 * One call per beat, as [ms from the start of the loop]: when it appears, when its input has
 * streamed, when it asks (edit only), when it was allowed, and when its output lands.
 */
interface Call {
  id: string
  name: string
  input: Record<string, string>
  output: string
  meta?: string
  durationMs: number
  at: number
  streamed: number
  ask?: number
  allowed?: number
  done: number
}

const FILE = "src/lib/format-date.ts"

const CALLS: Call[] = [
  {
    id: "search",
    name: "search_code",
    input: { pattern: "formatRunDate(" },
    output: `src/lib/format-date.ts:8      export function formatRunDate(date: Date) {
src/components/recent-runs.tsx:31   {formatRunDate(run.startedAt)}
src/components/run-header.tsx:12    formatRunDate(run.finishedAt)`,
    meta: "3 matches",
    durationMs: 184,
    at: 0,
    streamed: 400,
    done: 900,
  },
  {
    id: "read",
    name: "read_file",
    input: { path: FILE },
    output: `export function formatRunDate(date: Date) {
  // Uses the machine locale: "Oct 21" here, "21 Oct" in CI.
  return date.toLocaleDateString(undefined, { month: "short", day: "numeric" })
}`,
    meta: "4 lines",
    durationMs: 42,
    at: 1300,
    streamed: 1600,
    done: 2000,
  },
  {
    id: "edit",
    name: "edit_file",
    input: {
      path: FILE,
      old: "toLocaleDateString(undefined, {",
      new: "toLocaleDateString('en-US', { timeZone: 'UTC',",
    },
    output: "Updated src/lib/format-date.ts",
    meta: "+1 -1",
    durationMs: 63,
    at: 2600,
    streamed: 3200,
    ask: 3200,
    allowed: 4500,
    done: 4900,
  },
  {
    id: "test",
    name: "run_command",
    input: { command: "pnpm test recent-runs" },
    output: `✓ src/lib/format-date.test.ts (4 tests) 11ms
✓ src/components/recent-runs.test.tsx (6 tests) 238ms
Tests  10 passed (10)`,
    meta: "exit 0",
    durationMs: 1460,
    at: 5500,
    streamed: 5800,
    done: 7200,
  },
]

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>
  )
}

/**
 * Holds the transcript to a fixed height and follows its newest line, the way a chat sticks to
 * the bottom: older calls glide up and fade under the top edge as new ones open.
 */
function Follow({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  const outer = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
  const inner = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
  const [offset, setOffset] = React.useState(0)
  React.useLayoutEffect(() => {
    const a = outer.current
    const b = inner.current
    if (!a || !b) return
    const measure = () => setOffset(Math.max(0, b.offsetHeight - a.clientHeight))
    measure()
    const observer = new ResizeObserver(measure)
    observer.observe(b)
    observer.observe(a)
    return () => observer.disconnect()
  }, [])
  const fade = "linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, #000 2.5rem)"
  return (
    <div
      ref={outer}
      className="h-[25.5rem] w-full max-w-xl overflow-hidden"
      style={offset > 0 ? { maskImage: fade, WebkitMaskImage: fade } : undefined}
    >
      <div
        ref={inner}
        className="ease-(--chatcn-ease-out) flex flex-col gap-3 transition-transform duration-300 motion-reduce:transition-none"
        style={{ transform: `translateY(${-offset}px)` }}
      >
        {children}
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

function stateOf(call: Call, t: number): ToolDisplayState {
  if (t < call.streamed) return "input-streaming"
  if (call.ask !== undefined && call.allowed !== undefined) {
    if (t < call.allowed) return "approval-requested"
    if (t < call.done) return "approval-responded"
  }
  if (t < call.done) return "input-available"
  return "output-available"
}

/** The raw JSON the model has written so far, for the streaming input view. */
function streamedText(call: Call, t: number) {
  const raw = JSON.stringify(call.input)
  const span = Math.max(1, call.streamed - call.at)
  const n = Math.ceil((Math.max(0, t - call.at) / span) * raw.length)
  return raw.slice(0, Math.max(2, n))
}

/** The live counter of a long running command, in whole seconds like the component's own. */
function runningLabel(call: Call, t: number) {
  const ms = t - call.streamed
  return ms < 1000 ? "Running" : `${Math.floor(ms / 1000)} s`
}

const REASON = "Pin the date format to en-US and UTC, so CI renders Oct 21 like your machine does."

/** The edit's output, as the two lines it changed. */
function EditDiff({ call }: { call: Call }) {
  return (
    <ToolCallCode>
      <span className="text-(color:--chatcn-red)">- {call.input.old}</span>
      {"\n"}
      <span className="text-(color:--chatcn-green)">+ {call.input.new}</span>
    </ToolCallCode>
  )
}

/**
 * A finished call folds its input away and keeps only what came back, so the newest result gets
 * the room and the panel holds one height.
 */
function Result({ call, decision }: { call: Call; decision?: ToolCallProps["decision"] }) {
  return (
    <>
      <ToolCallSection
        label="Output"
        action={<CopyButton size="icon-xs" value={call.output} label="Copy output" />}
      >
        {call.id === "edit" ? <EditDiff call={call} /> : <ToolCallCode>{call.output}</ToolCallCode>}
      </ToolCallSection>
      {decision?.approved ? (
        <p className="text-[0.75rem]/[1rem] text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle)">Allowed once</p>
      ) : null}
    </>
  )
}

/** The agent's answer lands after the tests pass. */
const ANSWER_MS = 7600

/** 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>
  )
}

/**
 * A coding agent fixes a date bug: it searches, reads the file, asks before it edits, then runs
 * the tests. The newest call opens while older ones fold to one line. Allow the edit, deny it or
 * open any call and the run waits a moment, then carries on.
 */
export default function ToolCallPreview() {
  const [clock, setClock] = React.useState(START_MS)
  const [held, hold] = useHold()
  const [opened, setOpened] = React.useState<Record<string, boolean>>({})
  const [denied, setDenied] = React.useState<string>()

  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (held) return
    if (reducedMotion()) {
      setClock(LOOP_MS - 1)
      return
    }
    const began = performance.now() - clock
    const id = window.setInterval(() => {
      const t = performance.now() - began
      if (t >= LOOP_MS) {
        // A new loop starts clean: every call folds back and a denied edit is forgotten.
        setOpened({})
        setDenied(undefined)
      }
      setClock(t % LOOP_MS)
    }, 50)
    return () => window.clearInterval(id)
    // biome-ignore lint/correctness/useExhaustiveDependencies: resumes from the clock it held at.
  }, [held])

  const t = clock
  const visible = CALLS.filter((c) => t >= c.at && !(denied && c.id === "test"))
  const newest = visible[visible.length - 1]?.id
  const edit = CALLS.find((c) => c.id === "edit")!

  return (
    <FitFrame minWidth="36rem">
      <div
        className="flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center gap-5 p-6"
        onPointerDownCapture={hold}
        onKeyDownCapture={hold}
      >
        <Follow>
          <p className="bg-(color:--chatcn-fill) text-[0.875rem]/[1.25rem] tracking-[-0.003em] text-(color:--chatcn-fg) rounded-(--chatcn-radius-xl) max-w-[85%] self-end px-3.5 py-2 text-pretty">
            Run dates show as 21 Oct in CI but Oct 21 locally. Fix it.
          </p>
          <div className="flex flex-col gap-2">
            {visible.map((call) => {
              let state = stateOf(call, t)
              let decision: ToolCallProps["decision"]
              if (call.id === "edit") {
                if (denied) {
                  state = "output-denied"
                  decision = { approved: false, reason: denied }
                } else if (state === "approval-responded" || (state === "output-available" && call.ask))
                  decision = { approved: true, scope: "once" }
              }
              const done = state === "output-available"
              return (
                <ToolCall
                  key={call.id}
                  name={call.name}
                  state={state}
                  input={call.input}
                  inputText={state === "input-streaming" ? streamedText(call, t) : undefined}
                  output={call.output}
                  meta={done ? call.meta : undefined}
                  durationMs={call.durationMs}
                  statusLabel={
                    state === "input-available" && call.id === "test"
                      ? runningLabel(call, t)
                      : undefined
                  }
                  approval={
                    call.ask !== undefined ? { id: `approve-${call.id}`, reason: REASON } : undefined
                  }
                  decision={decision}
                  onApprove={() => setClock(edit.allowed ?? t)}
                  onDeny={(_, reason) => setDenied(reason ?? "Keep the machine locale.")}
                  open={opened[call.id] ?? call.id === newest}
                  onOpenChange={(open) => setOpened((o) => ({ ...o, [call.id]: open }))}
                >
                  {done ? <Result call={call} decision={decision} /> : undefined}
                </ToolCall>
              )
            })}
          </div>
          {t >= ANSWER_MS && !denied ? (
            <p className="text-[0.875rem]/[1.25rem] tracking-[-0.003em] text-(color:--chatcn-fg) ease-(--chatcn-ease-out-soft) px-1 text-pretty transition-opacity duration-200 starting:opacity-0">
              Fixed. formatRunDate now pins en-US and UTC, so runs read Oct 21 on every machine,
              and all 10 tests pass.
            </p>
          ) : null}
        </Follow>
        <MoreOn slug="tool-call">
          Streaming input, approvals, output and errors for every tool your agent calls. On
        </MoreOn>
      </div>
    </FitFrame>
  )
}

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