Standard visual treatment for AI reasoning vs. output in non-chat UIs #916

Summary

The DeepThinking component provides a visually distinct, collapsible card for AI reasoning within the Chatbot Message component. However, it's designed for chat contexts and there's no equivalent standard treatment for non-chat UIs.

Non-chat contexts (dashboards, detail panels, operational UIs) that display both AI reasoning traces and AI conclusions need a standard way to visually distinguish "the AI's internal thinking" from "the AI's output to the user." Currently, teams must manually compose Card + ExpandableSection with no standard styling convention.

Possible approaches

• Make DeepThinking a first-class reusable component with documented non-chat usage patterns

• Provide design guidance for composing existing core components to achieve this distinction

Use case

An operations UI showing an AI diagnostic where the reasoning steps need to be visually separated from the final recommendation.

Context

This gap was identified during review of the Chain of Thought AI UX standard (Red Hat UXD, AUX-140).

Jira Issue: PF-4691