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🪩 style: Shimmer Live Reasoning Labels and Timers (#15431)
* ✨ style: Shimmer the Thinking Label and Elapsed Timer While Generating

The label above streaming reasoning and the elapsed-time reading beneath a
streaming response both sat static while every other in-flight indicator on
the row — a running tool call's label, a running skill, a pending question —
carried the shimmer. Give them the same treatment so "in flight" reads the
same way everywhere.

Both are gated on state that is already established:

- `Reasoning` shimmers only while `effectiveIsSubmitting && isLast`. Settled
  thoughts, an older row the reader paged to, and reasoning overtaken by
  later content all keep the plain label. The legacy `Thinking` component
  and `ThinkingLabel` (the detached-subagent marker) do not opt in.
- `Elapsed` only ever renders under the streaming latest row at the newest
  sibling position (`shouldShowElapsed`), so there is no settled reading for
  the animation to misrepresent. Completed tool-call durations go through
  `getRunStepDurationLabels` and are untouched.

`.shimmer` and Tailwind's `animate-in` entrance both drive `animation-name`,
and `.shimmer` — plain CSS after `@tailwind utilities`, equal specificity —
would win and silently kill the generated-label slide-in. The two therefore
sit on nested spans, in the order that is safe for `background-clip: text`:
the transform on the ancestor, the clipped background on the descendant.

* 🎨 fix: Drive the Shimmer From Theme Roles and Honor Reduced Motion

Two review findings, both against the shared `.shimmer` utility rather than
this PR's call sites — but this PR adds two more consumers of it, one of which
sweeps continuously for the whole generation, so they land here.

Theme roles. The gradient hard-coded near-black and near-white and selected
the second with `.dark`, so a stored or custom theme that restated its text
colors got a shimmer that ignored them. Themes are applied as bare RGB
triplets on the document element; the sweep now reads `--shimmer-base` /
`--shimmer-dip` (with the established `-alpha` companions the border roles
already use) and falls back to `--text-primary` when a theme states no base of
its own. The fallback is resolved at the label, not in the `:root`
declaration — `var()` substitutes where it is declared, so seeding
`--shimmer-base: var(--text-primary)` on `html` would have frozen the default
and ignored every theme scope applied further down. Dark still declares its
base outright: that value is dimmer than the dark theme's text color, and
restating it as `--text-primary` would have brightened every shimmer.

Default light and dark are preserved: rendered old against new at a frozen
sweep position, 144 of 137,280 pixels differ by a single 1/255 channel step,
which is the alpha-syntax rounding path. A theme that sets only
`--text-primary` now colors the sweep with no shimmer-specific override.

Reduced motion. `.shimmer` was the one custom animation in `style.css` with no
`prefers-reduced-motion` guard — `.t-icon-swap`, `.t-avatar`,
`.scroll-animation-*` and `[data-lc-fade]` all carry one. Stopping the
animation alone is not a fallback: the background settles at position 0 and
shows only half the sweep, stranding the tail of the label in the
near-invisible dip. The guard drops the gradient and hands the glyphs back to
the color they would otherwise have had.

* 🎨 fix: Register the Shimmer Stops and Keep the Sweep Whole

Codex round 2, on the previous round's fixes.

Register the stops. Moving the constants into CSS variables did not make them
theme-owned: `applyResolvedTheme` writes only `themeColorTokens`, so nothing a
theme declares could reach `--shimmer-base`. Dark was the case that mattered —
`style.css` declares a `.dark` base outright, which a theme can only outrank by
having the property applied to the document element — so a custom dark theme
still got the stock white sweep. `rgb-shimmer-base` and `rgb-shimmer-dip` now
sit in the registry beside the text roles, seeded with today's values in both
modes; `registry.spec` already enforces light/dark key parity. The opacities
stay in CSS as `--shimmer-*-alpha`, the way the border roles keep
`--border-*-alpha`.

This narrows the earlier claim: a *versioned* theme resolves every default, so
it now states its own sweep rather than inheriting `--text-primary`. The
`--text-primary` fallback still serves plain CSS and legacy partial `themeRGB`
themes, which apply only the keys they name.

Keep the sweep whole. `key` remounts the label row so the entrance replays,
restarting the sweep with it; reasoning labels revise on a 3s default
(`DEFAULT_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MS`) against a 4s sweep, so it never completes a
cycle. Keying only when an entrance will actually play leaves an un-animated
label — smooth streaming off, or reduced motion — with a stable identity and an
unbroken sweep, instead of a bare snap with nothing to cover it.

Not adopted: keeping the shimmer element stable and replaying the entrance
inside it. The clipped element paints the glyphs itself, so a descendant's
opacity cannot fade them — rendered at entrance t=0, the current nesting is
correctly invisible while the swapped one sits fully lit through its own fade.
The remaining restart happens only underneath a deliberate entrance animation.

* 🎨 fix: Carry Legacy Themes Onto the Registered Shimmer Stops

Codex round 3. Registering the stops migrated versioned themes but not stored
or environment `themeRGB` ones: `ThemeProvider` routes those to the legacy
`applyTheme` adapter, which bypasses `resolveTheme` and applies only the keys a
theme names. A stored theme has no shimmer keys, so it kept the stock sweep
while the rest of its palette moved — and in dark the CSS cannot recover on its
own, because `.dark` declares a base outright and the `--text-primary` fallback
never runs.

`mapColors` already carries legacy themes across a token they predate:
`--surface-composer-hover` derives from `rgb-surface-hover` when absent. The
shimmer base follows the same shape, deriving from `rgb-text-primary` — which
is what it already resolves to in light, so only dark changes. The dip has no
legacy counterpart and stays at its default; it is the faded half of the sweep,
carried at low alpha, so it reads as dimmed against any base.

Not a regression being fixed but an improvement being extended: before this
branch, every theme got the same hard-coded sweep. This is the last path that
still did.

* 🎨 fix: Mirror the Shimmer Fallback Onto Versioned Theme Resolution

Codex round 4. The compat fallback added last round covered only the legacy
adapter, but this codebase carries these fallbacks on both paths: the
`rgb-surface-composer-hover` derivation exists in `mapColors` AND in
`resolveTheme`. Adding the shimmer stop to just one left the halves disagreeing.

The versioned path is the one where the omission actually hurts. A definition
written before these keys existed cannot name them, so `resolveTheme` filled
the gap from the bundled base and pinned that theme's in-flight labels to
LibreChat's own sweep — a theme restating its text as white would light every
label in the stock near-black. Omission there means "not written yet", not
"wants the bundled sweep"; a theme that does want it still says so by naming
the stop, exactly as it opts out of the composer-hover fallback.

Both paths now behave the same: a theme that restates its text and names no
shimmer base gets its sweep from that text color, whichever way it is applied.
2026-08-31 14:12:39 -04:00
.claude/skills 🪝 feat: Execute Agent Plugin Command Hooks (#14755) 2026-08-12 13:21:15 -04:00
.devcontainer 🐳 chore: Upgrade Docker Builds To Node 24 (#13448) 2026-06-01 10:03:18 -04:00
.github 🎯 ci: Retarget Pull Requests Opened Against main to dev (#15416) 2026-08-31 11:29:34 -04:00
.husky 🪥 chore: Run CI's Static Checks on Each Commit's Diff (#15303) 2026-08-28 10:08:37 -04:00
.vscode
api 🧿 fix: Restore Shared IP Limits for Generation Retries (#15427) 2026-08-31 14:11:12 -04:00
client 🪩 style: Shimmer Live Reasoning Labels and Timers (#15431) 2026-08-31 14:12:39 -04:00
config 🔇 refactor: Quiet Framework Logging in Unit Tests (#15363) 2026-08-30 15:26:30 -04:00
e2e 🧪 fix: Align Detached Activity E2E With the Removed Running Chip (#15382) 2026-08-30 19:53:59 -04:00
helm 🛫 refactor: Promote Generation Protocol V2 Automatically (#15324) 2026-08-28 17:17:09 -04:00
otel/langfuse-fanout 📦 chore: Bump Packages from LibreChat SCA Audit (#15410) 2026-08-31 08:51:17 -04:00
packages 🪩 style: Shimmer Live Reasoning Labels and Timers (#15431) 2026-08-31 14:12:39 -04:00
redis-config
scripts 🪥 chore: Run CI's Static Checks on Each Commit's Diff (#15303) 2026-08-28 10:08:37 -04:00
search 🐋 chore: add opt-in alternative local stack experiments (#14678) 2026-08-07 10:40:58 -04:00
skill 🗂️ feat: Add Deployment Skill Directory (#13523) 2026-06-05 10:24:28 -04:00
src/tests
utils
.codex 🧴 fix: Strip LangChain URLs From Provider Errors (#15421) 2026-08-31 12:51:34 -04:00
.dockerignore
.env.example 🔇 refactor: Quiet Framework Logging in Unit Tests (#15363) 2026-08-30 15:26:30 -04:00
.gitattributes
.gitignore 🧪 test(e2e): add Bombadil property exploration (#14462) 2026-08-10 02:11:06 +02:00
.nvmrc 🐳 chore: Upgrade Docker Builds To Node 24 (#13448) 2026-06-01 10:03:18 -04:00
.prettierrc
AGENTS.md 🎯 ci: Retarget Pull Requests Opened Against main to dev (#15416) 2026-08-31 11:29:34 -04:00
bun.lock ⬆️ chore: Bump @librechat/agents to v3.6.0 (#14890) 2026-08-16 09:15:35 -04:00
CLAUDE.md 🎯 ci: Retarget Pull Requests Opened Against main to dev (#15416) 2026-08-31 11:29:34 -04:00
CONTEXT.md 📬 feat: Move Agent Queued Turns Server-Side (#15370) 2026-08-30 21:53:58 -04:00
deploy-compose.langfuse-fanout.yml 🪭 feat: support per-run central langfuse export suppression (#14207) 2026-07-12 08:03:27 -04:00
deploy-compose.yml 🫆 chore: Remove Published Credential Defaults (#14680) 2026-08-07 07:25:05 -04:00
docker-compose.langfuse-fanout.yml 🪭 feat: support per-run central langfuse export suppression (#14207) 2026-07-12 08:03:27 -04:00
docker-compose.override.yml.example
docker-compose.yml 🫆 chore: Remove Published Credential Defaults (#14680) 2026-08-07 07:25:05 -04:00
Dockerfile 🚀 chore: Prepare v0.8.8-rc1 (#14394) 2026-08-14 03:24:59 -04:00
Dockerfile.multi 🚀 chore: Prepare v0.8.8-rc1 (#14394) 2026-08-14 03:24:59 -04:00
eslint.config.mjs 🎨 feat: Refine Client Colors and Sharing Dialogs (#14734) 2026-08-10 22:43:57 -04:00
librechat.example.yaml 🧲 feat: Enable Secure Attached Environment Pairing (#15355) 2026-08-30 17:12:20 -04:00
LICENSE 🗒️ docs: Update LICENSE.md Year: 2025 -> 2026 (#12554) 2026-04-08 09:12:44 -04:00
package-lock.json 🛗 chore: Elevate @librechat/agents to 3.7.11 and multer to 2.3.0 (#15409) 2026-08-31 08:51:30 -04:00
package.json 📦 chore: Bump Packages from LibreChat SCA Audit (#15410) 2026-08-31 08:51:17 -04:00
rag.yml
README.md 🚀 chore: Prepare v0.8.8-rc1 (#14394) 2026-08-14 03:24:59 -04:00
README.zh.md ✨ v0.8.7-rc1 (#13592) 2026-06-15 13:10:30 -04:00
tool-intent-spec.md 🎯 feat: Tool Intent Label Capability (tool_intents) (#14499) 2026-07-29 15:40:52 -04:00
turbo.json 🌯 chore: Retire Rollup-Era devDependencies After tsdown Migration (#14496) 2026-07-28 22:08:52 -04:00

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🚀 What's New in v0.8.8-rc1

  • Agent run control: Interrupt or steer an Agent mid-run, queue follow-up messages, and reclaim, edit, or escalate pending steers.
  • Human-in-the-loop Agents: Agents stream question progress, ask up to four related questions in one form, pause for input or tool approval, and resume.
  • Unified Agent Builder: A redesigned Tools marketplace brings together Skills, MCP, Code Interpreter, orchestration, Programmatic Tool Calling, model-spec controls, and per-tool background and intent settings.
  • Readable Agent activity: Generated activity-group headers, parent phase summaries, and live tool intent labels make long reasoning and tool runs easier to scan.
  • Code Interpreter workflows: Code and shell tools can run in the background, sandbox images return as viewable artifacts, and highly experimental stateful sessions can reuse prewarmed conversation workspaces.
  • Agent extensibility: Experimental Agent Plugins can bundle deployment Skills, MCP servers, and opt-in command hooks, while explicit subagents initialize only when selected.
  • Memory, context, and identity: Agents can manage memory with optional per-agent isolation, expose support contacts safely, and show a more faithful Context Usage gauge.
  • Sharing and files: Shared conversations show a badge and update at a stable URL, while signed-in viewers can continue them as personal copies.
  • Artifact workflows: Open previews fullscreen, work with PowerPoint .potx templates across upload, search, and code execution, upload shell scripts across common MIME variants, export Mermaid diagrams as SVG or PNG, and download original Office files from the artifact panel.
  • Models and reasoning: Added GPT-5.6 with Responses API reasoning controls, Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.7 and 3.6 Flash, and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite.
  • Langfuse observability: Configure encrypted Langfuse connections in-app, let authorized admins open sampled sessions directly, optionally fan out traces by tenant, and suppress central export per run.
  • Administration and security: Delegate config sections, encrypt registered secrets, enforce SSRF checks for speech, OCR, and web tools, and generate unique temporary credentials when secrets are blank.
  • Messages and navigation: Right-aligned user turns, unified multi-part editing, full-message copy, a dock-style message rail, virtualized search, smooth streaming, and faster Agent startup.
  • Streaming and tool reliability: Adaptive provider smoothing, Redis delta batching, dynamic MCP tool refresh, parsed MCP response media types, runtime OAuth recovery, and Agent stream circuit breakers improve long-running workflows.
  • Deployment and reliability: Added configurable HTTP timeouts, Amazon DocumentDB 5.0+ support, low-noise Redis and browser observability, and a rolling-upgrade-safe generation protocol.

Read the full v0.8.8-rc1 changelog.

✨ Features

  • 🖥️ UI & Experience inspired by ChatGPT with enhanced design and features

  • 🤖 AI Model Selection:

    • Anthropic (Claude), AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google, Vertex AI, OpenAI Responses API (incl. Azure)
    • Custom Endpoints: Use any OpenAI-compatible API with LibreChat, no proxy required
    • Compatible with Local & Remote AI Providers:
      • Ollama, groq, Cohere, Mistral AI, Apple MLX, koboldcpp, together.ai,
      • OpenRouter, Helicone, Perplexity, ShuttleAI, Deepseek, Qwen, and more
  • 🔧 Code Interpreter API:

    • Secure, Sandboxed Execution in Python, Node.js (JS/TS), Go, C/C++, Java, PHP, Rust, and Fortran
    • Seamless File Handling: Upload, process, and download files directly
    • No Privacy Concerns: Fully isolated and secure execution
    • Open-Source & Self-Hostable: powered by ClickHouse/code-interpreter
  • 🔦 Agents & Tools Integration:

    • LibreChat Agents:
      • No-Code Custom Assistants: Build specialized, AI-driven helpers
      • Agent Marketplace: Discover and deploy community-built agents
      • Collaborative Sharing: Share agents with specific users and groups
      • Flexible & Extensible: Use MCP Servers, tools, file search, code execution, and more
      • Skills: Create reusable SKILL.md instruction bundles for manual, automatic, or always-on agent workflows
      • Agent Plugins: Experimentally bundle deployment Skills and MCP servers into startup-loaded packages
      • Subagents: Delegate focused work to isolated child agent runs with their own context windows
      • Compatible with Custom Endpoints, OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google, Vertex AI, Responses API, and more
      • Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support for Tools
  • 🔍 Web Search:

    • Search the internet and retrieve relevant information to enhance your AI context
    • Combines search providers, content scrapers, and result rerankers for optimal results
    • Customizable Jina Reranking: Configure custom Jina API URLs for reranking services
    • Learn More →
  • 🪄 Generative UI with Code Artifacts:

    • Code Artifacts create React, HTML, and Mermaid content directly in chat
    • Open previews fullscreen and export Mermaid diagrams as SVG or PNG
  • 🎨 Image Generation & Editing

  • 💾 Presets & Context Management:

    • Create, Save, & Share Custom Presets
    • Switch between AI Endpoints and Presets mid-chat
    • Edit, Resubmit, and Continue Messages with Conversation branching
    • Create and share prompts with specific users and groups
    • Fork Messages & Conversations for Advanced Context control
  • 💬 Multimodal & File Interactions:

    • Upload and analyze images with Claude 3, GPT-4.5, GPT-4o, o1, Llama-Vision, and Gemini 📸
    • Chat with Files using Custom Endpoints, OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, & Google 🗃️
  • 🌎 Multilingual UI:

    • English, 中文 (简体), 中文 (繁體), العربية, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano
    • Polski, Português (PT), Português (BR), Русский, 日本語, Svenska, 한국어, Tiếng Việt
    • Türkçe, Nederlands, עברית, Català, Čeština, Dansk, Eesti, فارسی
    • Suomi, Magyar, Հայերեն, Bahasa Indonesia, ქართული, Latviešu, ไทย, ئۇيغۇرچە
  • 🧠 Reasoning UI:

    • Dynamic Reasoning UI for Chain-of-Thought/Reasoning AI models like DeepSeek-R1
  • 🎨 Customizable Interface:

    • Customizable Dropdown & Interface that adapts to both power users and newcomers
  • 🌊 Resumable Streams:

    • Never lose a response: AI responses automatically reconnect and resume if your connection drops
    • Multi-Tab & Multi-Device Sync: Open the same chat in multiple tabs or pick up on another device
    • Production-Ready: Works from single-server setups to horizontally scaled deployments with Redis
  • 🗣️ Speech & Audio:

    • Chat hands-free with Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech
    • Automatically send and play Audio
    • Supports OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Elevenlabs
  • 📥 Import & Export Conversations:

    • Import Conversations from LibreChat, ChatGPT, Chatbot UI
    • Export conversations as screenshots, markdown, text, json
  • 🔍 Search & Discovery:

    • Search all messages/conversations
  • 👥 Multi-User & Secure Access:

    • Multi-User, Secure Authentication with OAuth2, LDAP, & Email Login Support
    • Built-in Moderation, and Token spend tools
  • 🎛️ Admin Panel:

    • Browser-based UI to manage users, groups, roles, and configuration overrides
    • Edit settings and per-role/group permissions live, without redeploying
    • Bundled with the Docker Compose stacks for one-command setup
  • ⚙️ Configuration & Deployment:

    • Configure Proxy, Reverse Proxy, Docker, & many Deployment options
    • Use S3 with CloudFront for stable media links, edge delivery, signed cookies, and secured downloads
    • Use completely local or deploy on the cloud
  • 📖 Open-Source & Community:

    • Completely Open-Source & Built in Public
    • Community-driven development, support, and feedback

For a thorough review of our features, see our docs here 📚

🪶 All-In-One AI Conversations with LibreChat

LibreChat is a self-hosted AI chat platform that unifies all major AI providers in a single, privacy-focused interface.

Beyond chat, LibreChat provides AI Agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, Artifacts, Code Interpreter, custom actions, conversation search, and enterprise-ready multi-user authentication.

Open source, actively developed, and built for anyone who values control over their AI infrastructure.


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For new features, components, or extensions, please open an issue and discuss before sending a PR.

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