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Live task summary in the spinner

Not switched on
Useful3 Signal4
Terminal UI Notable

The spinner can show a live one-line summary of what the current task is doing.

A live task summary replacing the thinking line is built, but nothing populates the summary here.

What

The status line can show a live one-line summary of what the current task is doing, replacing the thinking line, the elapsed-time indicator and the trailing ellipsis while it is present. It only appears when the app is holding a fresh summary and you are not viewing an agent task; nothing in this build was found to populate that summary, so it is not reachable through normal use here.

Details
  • A new isLiveBriefTurn flag suppresses the usual thinking summary for turns that carry one.
Evidence

"task-summary"

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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