Overview
Manta is a dark AI-assistant dashboard for chat and agent products. Manta rays, drawn live as ASCII characters on a canvas, glide across a deep-sea background behind a greeting, a rotating task headline and a translucent glass prompt composer. The rays sweep from side to side with a slow wing-beat, bank toward the composer while you type, move aside from the pointer, and change color and pace with the response mode (Auto, Fast or Think). The headline cycles through seven task lines with a word-by-word blur and holds still while there is text in the composer. A collapsible sidebar holds recent prompts, Explore swaps in new starting points, and the History button opens a command palette with ⌘K or Ctrl K. Pause motion stops the manta rays and the headline, and the choice is remembered. Reduced motion starts paused, reduced transparency swaps the glass for solid panels, and the palette, drawer and shortcuts sheet keep focus and close with Esc. The layout reflows from desktop down to a phone drawer. The interface ships as one self-contained HTML file with inline CSS, JavaScript and SVG icons. No framework, libraries, package installation or build step is required. This is a frontend template. Prompts stay in the page; it does not include a backend, authentication or a connection to an AI service. Included: index.html, a quick-start, hosting and customization README, AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md for AI coding agents, and third-party credits.
Highlights
- Production-ready, documented source
- Clean, componentized architecture
- Drops into your stack with minimal setup
