suggestions-development

A development rulebook for adding suggestions to CopilotKit chat interfaces. Suggestions are prompts shown in the interface that users can click to send.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure static or generated suggestions, trigger them manually, and connect suggestion behavior to CopilotKit chat components.
Why use it?
It explains how to control automatic or manual suggestions and avoid repeated requests or unreliable suggestion behavior.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/copilotkit/copilotkit/suggestions-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,388 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00013 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash f6059c82b6fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

suggestions-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/suggestions-development.mdc · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Suggestions development guide

Summary

CopilotKit comes with suggestions behavior that allows an LLM generate (or the developer to statically program) suggestions that appear in the UI. When clicked, these suggestions will add a message. The logic for suggestions is currently divided between Headless UI or our Prebuilt components.

The suggestions system includes intelligent streaming validation, debouncing, and robust error handling to ensure reliable performance and prevent infinite retry loops.

Prebuilt components (CopilotChat)

The CopilotChat component has a suggestions prop that controls suggestion behavior:

  • "auto" (default) - suggestions are generated automatically at the start of a chat and after every turn
  • "manual" - suggestions will only be shown via setSuggestions or generateSuggestions from the useCopilotChat hook
  • SuggestionItem[] - an array of static suggestion items to be used as suggestions always

The system automatically handles debouncing and cooldowns to prevent excessive API calls. It also waits for useCopilotChatSuggestions hooks to register their configuration before generating initial suggestions.

Headless UI (useCopilotChat)

The useCopilotChat hook provides programmatic control over suggestions:

  • suggestions - current suggestion array
  • setSuggestions - manually set suggestions
  • generateSuggestions - trigger AI generation
  • resetSuggestions - clear all suggestions
  • isLoadingSuggestions - loading state

Users can configure suggestions via useCopilotChatSuggestions hook which registers configuration that the auto-generation system uses.

Core files

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 101 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A f6059c82b6fc

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suggestions-development is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository CopilotKit/CopilotKit (37,138 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.