RFC 8 · What should an AI chat interface be in vertical writing?

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AI chat UIs are built around horizontal bubbles alternating left and right. For someone reading vertically, that model imports a foreign interaction pattern wholesale. What would a native vertical AI chat interface actually look like — and this is the one I most want the community to fight about.

Where it shows up here: message, text-field — the primitives exist; the composition does not yet.

Open questions:

• Where do "me" and "the assistant" live when columns flow right-to-left — and does alternating sides even survive?
• How does a streaming response read as it fills a column top-to-bottom?
• What happens to threading, citations, and code blocks (inherently horizontal) inside a vertical stream?

Write-up: https://vertically.works/challenges#ai-chat
Propose your answer as a PR. Strong answers get merged into the spec.