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What does this PR do?

Routes the prebuilt chat's remaining hard-coded strings through the labels config, so apps can translate them.

Key Default Where
reasoningMessageThinkingLabel "Thinking…" reasoning header while the model reasons (React, Vue, Angular)
chatInputSlashMenuLabel "Slash commands" name of the slash-command menu (React, Vue)
chatInputSlashMenuEmptyText "No commands found" its empty state (React, Vue)
attachmentRemoveButtonLabel "Remove attachment" queued attachment (React, Vue, Angular)
attachmentPlayVideoButtonLabel "Play video" queued video (React, Vue)
attachmentPreviewCloseButtonLabel "Close preview" attachment preview (React, Vue)
modalHeaderCloseButtonLabel "Close" popup and sidebar header (React, Vue)
modalHeaderThreadsButtonLabel "Open threads" threads drawer launcher (React, Vue)
sidebarLabel "Copilot chat sidebar" name of the sidebar region (React, Vue)

"Thought for N seconds" carries a number and plural rules, which a plain string label can't express. Its English default stays as it is. The reasoning header slot now also receives elapsedSeconds (React; Vue's header and layout slots), so an app can render its own text with correct plurals:

<CopilotChat
  messageView={{
    reasoningMessage: {
      header: ({ isStreaming, elapsedSeconds, ...props }) => (
        <CopilotChatReasoningMessage.Header
          {...props}
          isStreaming={isStreaming}
          label={isStreaming ? "Denkt nach…" : `${Math.round(elapsedSeconds)} Sekunden nachgedacht`}
        />
      ),
    },
  }}
/>

The change is additive: same English defaults, and no visual change unless an app sets the new labels. The reference pages for useCopilotChatConfiguration (React, Vue) and provideCopilotChatLabels list the new keys, and the reasoning-messages guide documents elapsedSeconds.

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Related PRs and Issues

Testing

New tests. Each fails against main and passes here:

  • React: CopilotChat.labels.test.tsx (7). Covers every string above, plus elapsedSeconds reaching a custom header (fake timers: 0, then 3 after three seconds).
  • Vue: CopilotChat.labels.test.ts (6).
  • Angular: copilot-chat-labels.spec.ts (2).

Checks:

  • nx run-many -t check-types,test for react-core, vue and angular, run one after another: react-core 1905 tests, vue 1186, angular 543 (1 skipped), all passing, and type checks clean.
  • nx run-many -t build,publint,attw for the same three: passing.
  • oxlint and oxfmt --check on the changed files: no new warnings.

Browser check: a page built against @copilotkit/react-core packed from this branch, with German labels, in Chromium 149 via Playwright. Repro and capture script: https://github.com/Mordris/copilotkit-ui-repro

1.79.1 This branch
Reasoning header (streaming) "Thinking…" "Denkt nach…"
Slash menu, no matches listbox "Slash commands": No commands found listbox "Befehle": Keine Befehle gefunden
Attachment buttons "Remove attachment", "Play video" "Anhang entfernen", "Video abspielen"
Preview close button "Close preview" "Vorschau schließen"
Same page, English labels identical to 1.79.1 (byte-identical screenshot in light mode)

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  • New Features
    • Chat labels can now be customized across Angular, React, and Vue for reasoning status, slash-command menus, attachment controls, modal buttons, and sidebar accessibility names.
    • Reasoning headers can access elapsed reasoning time to create localized labels.
    • Default labels are provided when custom labels are not set.
  • Documentation
    • Updated configuration references and customization guides to cover the new labels and elapsed-time information.

…ed strings through labels

Some strings in the prebuilt chat bypassed the labels config and stayed in
English: the reasoning header's "Thinking…", and the names of the attachment
remove and play buttons, the preview close button, the slash-command menu
and its empty state, the modal header close and threads buttons, and the
sidebar.

Add a label for each, with the current English text as the default. The
reasoning header slot (React and Vue) also receives elapsedSeconds, so an app
can build its own localized "Thought for …" text; the default stays as it is.
Angular gets the reasoning and attachment labels it uses.
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Chat components in Angular, React, and Vue now use configured labels for reasoning status and selected controls. React and Vue reasoning header slots also expose elapsed time. Tests and documentation cover the label configuration and slot data.

Changes: Chat label configuration

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Reasoning labels and elapsed time
packages/angular/src/lib/chat-config.ts, packages/angular/src/lib/components/chat/copilot-chat-reasoning-message.ts, packages/react-core/src/v2/providers/CopilotChatConfigurationProvider.tsx, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotChatReasoningMessage.tsx, packages/vue/src/v2/providers/types.ts, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotChatReasoningMessage.vue, packages/angular/src/lib/components/chat/__tests__/copilot-chat-labels.spec.ts, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/__tests__/CopilotChat.labels.test.tsx, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/__tests__/CopilotChat.labels.test.ts, showcase/shell-docs/src/content/docs/custom-look-and-feel/reasoning-messages.mdx, showcase/shell-docs/src/content/snippets/shared/guides/custom-look-and-feel/reasoning-messages.mdx
Reasoning components use the configured streaming label. React and Vue pass elapsed seconds to reasoning header slots. Tests and documentation cover the label and slot data.
Configured labels for chat controls
packages/react-core/src/v2/providers/CopilotChatConfigurationProvider.tsx, packages/vue/src/v2/providers/types.ts, packages/angular/src/lib/components/chat/copilot-chat-attachment-queue.ts, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotChatAttachmentQueue.tsx, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotChatInput.tsx, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/Lightbox.tsx, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotModalHeader.tsx, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotSidebarView.tsx, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotChatAttachmentQueue.vue, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotChatInput.vue, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotModalHeader.vue, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotModalHeaderCloseButton.ts, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotSidebarViewInternal.vue, packages/angular/src/lib/components/chat/__tests__/copilot-chat-labels.spec.ts, packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/__tests__/CopilotChat.labels.test.tsx, packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/__tests__/CopilotChat.labels.test.ts, showcase/shell-docs/src/content/reference/angular/functions/provideCopilotChatLabels.mdx, showcase/shell-docs/src/content/reference/hooks/useCopilotChatConfiguration.mdx, showcase/shell-docs/src/content/reference/vue/hooks/useCopilotChatConfiguration.mdx
Attachment, slash-menu, preview, modal, and sidebar controls use configured labels. Framework tests check rendered labels and accessible names. Reference documentation lists the added label keys and defaults.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to be74c

The change makes the slash-command menu label and empty-state text configurable while keeping the existing English defaults. No merge-blocking risk was found in the reviewed change.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: routing remaining hard-coded chat strings through configurable labels across React, Vue, and Angular.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #7864 requires the listed chat strings to use labels with existing English defaults and requires elapsedSeconds for localized reasoning headers. The PR implements the nine labels in the appl…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The source changes route issue #7864 strings through chat-label configuration or update the reasoning-slot contract. The tests verify these changes. The documentation describes the new labels and `ela…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 90.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 15 files.
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Issue #7864 requires the listed chat strings to use labels with existing English defaults and requires elapsedSeconds for localized reasoning headers. The PR implements the nine labels in the applicable React, Vue, and Angular components. React exposes elapsedSeconds to the reasoning header. Vue exposes it through the header and layout slots. Angular keeps its framework-specific close-button labels and has no reasoning header slot, consistent with the issue scope. The PR adds framework tests and documentation. A2UI strings and icon-only button naming remain excluded.

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The source changes route issue #7864 strings through chat-label configuration or update the reasoning-slot contract. The tests verify these changes. The documentation describes the new labels and elapsedSeconds. The reviewed change summary shows no unrelated implementation or documentation changes.

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  • packages/react-core/src/v2/components/chat/Lightbox.tsx
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  • packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotModalHeaderCloseButton.ts
  • packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/CopilotSidebarViewInternal.vue
  • packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/__tests__/CopilotChat.labels.test.ts
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Comment thread packages/vue/src/v2/components/chat/__tests__/CopilotChat.labels.test.ts Outdated
The label cases mirror React's CopilotChat.labels.test.tsx, so they follow
PARITY.md: one template host instead of an h(...) harness, and
@testing-library/vue role and text queries instead of wrapper.get/find.
…ew labels

Describe where each relabelled string comes from: the composer and its
slash-command menu, the attachment queue, video preview and lightbox, the
reasoning message and its header label, the sidebar and the header close
button, plus the helpers in the React label tests.

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🚀 Feature Request: Translate the chat's remaining hard-coded strings ("Thinking…", screen-reader labels) through labels

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