🎯 Skill Positioning

This skill covers all UI components in @ant-design/x — the React component library for building AI-driven chat interfaces based on the RICH interaction paradigm.

It covers component selection, API usage, composition patterns, and common anti-patterns.

Prerequisite: This skill handles UI only. For data flow and streaming, see use-x-chat, x-chat-provider, x-request skills.

Table of Contents

• 📦 Package Overview
• 🗂️ Component Groups
• 🚀 Quick Start Decision Guide
• 🛠 Recommended Workflow
• 🚨 Development Rules
• 🤝 Skill Collaboration
• 🔗 Reference Resources

📦 Package Overview

Package	Responsibility
@ant-design/x	All UI components in this skill
@ant-design/x-sdk	Data providers, request, streaming state — not covered here
@ant-design/x-markdown	Markdown rendering inside Bubble — see x-markdown skill

npm install @ant-design/x

@ant-design/x extends antd. If you use ConfigProvider, replace it with XProvider.

🗂️ Component Groups

Based on the RICH interaction paradigm:

Stage	Components
General	Bubble, Bubble.List, Conversations, Notification
Wake	Welcome, Prompts
Express	Sender, Attachments, Suggestion
Confirmation	Think, ThoughtChain
Feedback	Actions, FileCard, Sources, CodeHighlighter, Mermaid, Folder
Global	XProvider

🚀 Quick Start Decision Guide

If you need to...	Read first
Render a chat message bubble	COMPONENTS.md → Bubble
Build a chat input box	COMPONENTS.md → Sender
List and switch conversations	COMPONENTS.md → Conversations
Show AI thinking process	COMPONENTS.md → ThoughtChain / Think
Add action buttons below a message	COMPONENTS.md → Actions
Build a welcome / onboarding screen	COMPONENTS.md → Welcome + Prompts
Show file attachments in input	COMPONENTS.md → Attachments
Show source citations	COMPONENTS.md → Sources
Add quick command suggestions	COMPONENTS.md → Suggestion
Display a hierarchical file/folder tree	COMPONENTS.md → Folder
Wire a complete chat page	PATTERNS.md
Look up a specific prop	API.md

🛠 Recommended Workflow

1. Pick components from COMPONENTS.md for each interaction stage.
2. Use PATTERNS.md to understand how components compose into full pages.
3. Wrap the app root with XProvider (replaces antd's ConfigProvider) for locale, theme, and shortcut keys.
4. Use API.md for precise prop names — do not guess them.

Minimal Full-Page Example

import { XProvider, Welcome, Prompts, Bubble, Sender } from '@ant-design/x';

export default () => (
  <XProvider>
    <Welcome title="Hello!" description="How can I help you?" />
    <Prompts
      items={[{ key: '1', label: 'What can you do?' }]}
      onItemClick={(info) => console.log(info.data.label)}
    />
    <Bubble.List items={[{ key: '1', content: 'Hello World', placement: 'end' }]} />
    <Sender onSubmit={(msg) => console.log(msg)} />
  </XProvider>
);

🚨 Development Rules

• Always use XProvider at the app root — it supersedes antd's ConfigProvider and enables locale, direction, and x-specific shortcut keys.
• Bubble.List not Bubble in loops — Bubble.List handles scroll anchoring, auto-scroll, and role-based layout; mapping Bubble manually loses these.
• Keep components prop stable in Bubble and Bubble.List — inline object creation causes re-renders and resets typing animations.
• Set streaming={true} during stream, streaming={false} on final chunk — leaving it true permanently breaks the done state.
• ThoughtChain vs Think: use ThoughtChain for multi-step tool/agent call chains; use Think for a collapsible single-block reasoning display.
• Actions.Copy, Actions.Feedback, Actions.Audio are preset sub-components — prefer them over building custom equivalents.
• Sender onSubmit vs onChange: onSubmit fires on send button or Enter key; onChange fires on every keystroke — do not conflate them.
• Never render Mermaid or CodeHighlighter inside a Bubble content string — use contentRender or the components map instead.

🤝 Skill Collaboration

Scenario	Skill combination
Full AI chat app	x-chat-provider → x-request → use-x-chat → x-components → x-markdown
Just building UI structure	x-components only
Markdown in bubble replies	x-components + x-markdown
Streaming data flow only	use-x-chat + x-request

🔗 Reference Resources

• COMPONENTS.md — Component-by-component guide with usage, key props, and examples
• PATTERNS.md — Full-page composition patterns and integration recipes
• API.md — Auto-generated prop reference from official component docs — covers all 17 components

Official Documentation

• Ant Design X Overview
• Bubble
• Sender
• Conversations
• ThoughtChain
• Actions
• Welcome
• Prompts
• Attachments
• Sources
• Suggestion
• Think
• Folder
• XProvider