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name: widgets-ui description: "Declarative UI widgets from JSON for React/Next.js from ui.inference.sh. Render rich interactive UIs from structured agent responses. Capabilities: forms, buttons, cards, layouts, inputs, selects, checkboxes. Use for: agent-generated UIs, dynamic forms, data display, interactive cards. Triggers: widgets, declarative ui, json ui, widget renderer, agent widgets," dynamic ui, form widgets, card widgets, shadcn widgets, structured output ui

Widget Renderer

Declarative UI from JSON via ui.inference.sh.

Quick Start

npx shadcn@latest add https://ui.inference.sh/r/widgets.json

Basic Usage

import { WidgetRenderer } from "@/registry/blocks/widgets/widget-renderer"
import type { Widget, WidgetAction } from "@/registry/blocks/widgets/types"

const widget: Widget = {
  type: 'ui',
  title: 'My Widget',
  children: [
    { type: 'text', value: 'Hello World' },
    { type: 'button', label: 'Click me', onClickAction: { type: 'click' } },
  ],
}

<WidgetRenderer
  widget={widget}
  onAction={(action, formData) => console.log(action, formData)}
/>

Widget Types

Layout

{ "type": "row", "gap": 2, "children": [...] }
{ "type": "col", "gap": 2, "children": [...] }
{ "type": "box", "background": "gradient-ocean", "padding": 4, "radius": "lg", "children": [...] }

Typography

{ "type": "title", "value": "Heading", "size": "2xl", "weight": "bold" }
{ "type": "text", "value": "Body text", "variant": "bold" }
{ "type": "caption", "value": "Small text" }
{ "type": "label", "value": "Field label", "fieldName": "email" }

Interactive

{ "type": "button", "label": "Submit", "variant": "default", "onClickAction": { "type": "submit" } }
{ "type": "input", "name": "email", "placeholder": "Enter email" }
{ "type": "textarea", "name": "message", "placeholder": "Your message" }
{ "type": "select", "name": "plan", "options": [{ "value": "pro", "label": "Pro" }] }
{ "type": "checkbox", "name": "agree", "label": "I agree", "defaultChecked": false }

Display

{ "type": "badge", "label": "New", "variant": "secondary" }
{ "type": "icon", "iconName": "check", "size": "lg" }
{ "type": "image", "src": "https://...", "alt": "Image", "width": 100, "height": 100 }
{ "type": "divider" }

Example: Flight Card

const flightWidget: Widget = {
  type: 'ui',
  children: [
    {
      type: 'box', background: 'gradient-ocean', padding: 4, radius: 'lg', children: [
        {
          type: 'row', justify: 'between', children: [
            {
              type: 'col', gap: 1, children: [
                { type: 'caption', value: 'departure' },
                { type: 'title', value: 'SFO', size: '2xl', weight: 'bold' },
              ]
            },
            { type: 'icon', iconName: 'plane', size: 'lg' },
            {
              type: 'col', gap: 1, align: 'end', children: [
                { type: 'caption', value: 'arrival' },
                { type: 'title', value: 'JFK', size: '2xl', weight: 'bold' },
              ]
            },
          ]
        },
      ]
    },
  ],
}

Example: Form

const formWidget: Widget = {
  type: 'ui',
  title: 'Contact Form',
  asForm: true,
  children: [
    {
      type: 'col', gap: 3, children: [
        { type: 'input', name: 'name', placeholder: 'Your name' },
        { type: 'input', name: 'email', placeholder: 'Email address' },
        { type: 'textarea', name: 'message', placeholder: 'Message' },
        { type: 'button', label: 'Send', variant: 'default', onClickAction: { type: 'submit' } },
      ]
    },
  ],
}

Gradients

Name	Description
gradient-ocean	Blue teal gradient
gradient-sunset	Orange pink gradient
gradient-purple	Purple gradient
gradient-cool	Cool blue gradient
gradient-midnight	Dark blue gradient

Handling Actions

const handleAction = (action: WidgetAction, formData?: WidgetFormData) => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case 'submit':
      console.log('Form data:', formData)
      break
    case 'click':
      console.log('Button clicked')
      break
  }
}

Related Skills

# Full agent component
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@agent-ui

# Chat UI blocks
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@chat-ui

# Tool UI
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@tools-ui

Documentation

• Widgets Overview - Understanding widgets
• Widget Schema - Widget JSON structure
• Agents That Generate UI - Building generative UIs

Component docs: ui.inference.sh/blocks/widgets