# React: making UI states explicit in the agentic era

Canonical source : [React: making UI states explicit in the agentic era](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/links/react-making-ui-states-explicit-in-the-agentic-era>)

When an agent changes a UI, checking a single account cannot cover every role, plan, or feature flag. Matt Rothenberg shows how values scattered across hooks, providers, and layouts can hide overlooked states — such as a Delete button shown to a view-only user.

Making display state an explicit component input lets teams render relevant combinations directly, test them, or compare them in a visual grid. Storybook and Playwright complement this approach, but they do not choose which scenarios to cover; that decision still matters.

- Selected on : 2026-10-27

- Resource publication : 2026-10-05

- Entry updated : 2026-11-07T20:32:37+0000

- Format : Article

- Source language : EN

- Credit : Matt Rothenberg

Original resource : [React: making UI states explicit in the agentic era](<https://mattrothenberg.com/notes/pure-ui-agentic-era/>)

Tags : [React](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/react>) · [State management](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/state-management>) · [Testing](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/testing>) · [AI Agents](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/ai-agents>)

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