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Add accessible animated AI loading and agent-status indicators with the React thinking-orbs library. Use when a chat, copilot, voice, search, generation, or tool-running interface needs a semantic working, searching, solving, listening, composing, or shaping state; when replacing a generic spinner with an AI activity orb; or when implementing the library's size, theme, speed, pause, reduced-motion, and canvas behavior.

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# Thinking Orbs

## Core Contract

1. Use `thinking-orbs` in React 18+ interfaces that need indeterminate AI activity feedback.
2. Map the real product lifecycle to one of the six shipped states.
3. Use only the tuned `20` or `64` pixel size. Do not stretch one preset into another.
4. Keep `theme="auto"` unless the surrounding surface has a known fixed theme.
5. Pair the orb with concise visible status text when the activity matters to the user.
6. Override `aria-label` with a task-specific label, or hide the orb from assistive technology when adjacent live text already announces the same state.
7. Use `paused` to freeze the current frame. Do not simulate pause with `speed={0}`.
8. Treat the orb as indeterminate feedback, never as a progress percentage or completion signal.

The package renders monochrome dots on a transparent 2D canvas. It does not expose custom colors, arbitrary sizes, or determinate progress.
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