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Visual replies

Agents can answer with charts, tables, checklists and interactive visuals that render right in the chat, in your theme.

Some answers read better as a picture. Agents in Glade can reply with visuals that appear inline in the chat, follow your theme and font size, and stay with the turn that made them.

Ask for one in plain words: “chart the bundle size per release”, “show me a table of the slowest tests”, “make a checklist for the migration”.

Native components

For common shapes, the agent publishes Glade’s own components:

  • Stats for headline numbers,
  • Bar and line charts, each with a table for screen readers,
  • Sortable tables,
  • Checklists you can tick,
  • Follow-up choices that send your pick as the next message,
  • Sliders and toggles that recompute the stats and charts around them,
  • Tabs that group any of the above.

These render instantly, look like the rest of Glade, and need nothing extra.

HTML visuals

For anything the components can’t express, such as diagrams, mockups or custom interactive tools, the agent writes a self-contained HTML visual. While it writes, the chat shows the visual being prepared.

HTML visuals run in a locked-down frame: no access to Glade, no pop-ups, downloads or form submission, and no storage, so edits inside a visual last until you leave the chat. Hover a visual to save it or open it larger.

Under the hood

Visual replies are tools on Glade’s glade MCP server, available to every agent:

Tool What it does
components_render Publishes a native visual from a small spec: stats, charts, tables, checklists, inputs and tabs.
html_begin Shows that an HTML visual is on its way, before the agent writes it.
html_render Publishes the finished HTML visual inline in the chat.
html_preview Lets the agent screenshot a complex visual and read its console before publishing it.

Glade checks a components_render spec before it shows anything: every formula is evaluated at the default inputs and at each slider’s ends, and errors go back to the agent instead of into the chat. html_preview renders in a separate, sandboxed browser that Glade downloads the first time it’s used.