Toggle to hide tool call activity during streaming
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- Shell
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Description
### Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
Toggle to hide tool call activity during streaming
### Proposed solution
When the model uses tools, the UI shows intermediate activity like:
"Checking my documentation"
└ # GitHub Copilot CLI Documentation
"Running bash command"
└ ...
This is informative but noisy, especially for quick questions where multiple tools fire.
Request: Add a keybinding (e.g., Ctrl+T style) or /command to toggle between:
1. Show all tool activity (current default)
2. Show only final response text (hidden tool calls) + show in footer/status bar that call activity is hidden
The hidden view would still show the final answer — just hide the intermediate "working on it" indicators. Similar to how Ctrl+T toggles reasoning display.
### Example prompts or workflows
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### Additional context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the existing Ctrl+T reasoning-display toggle and the code that renders streaming tool activity. Implement a toggle between full activity and final-response-only output, with hidden status shown in the footer or status bar, and verify both display modes during tool-using prompts.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100