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<title>Hermes WebUI — Two-Stage Chat Proposal (Issue #536)</title>
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is used unchanged inside .messages / .msg-row. New proposed
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Proposed two-stage elements (prefix .p2s-)
The proposal introduces one container (.p2s-stage1) that wraps
the execution history (thinking + tool cards) and one visual
treatment (.p2s-answer) for the final-answer segment. The same
DOM can be rendered in three modes:
.p2s-stage1.is-live → Working timer + expanded history
.p2s-stage1.is-settled → Collapsed to one-line summary
.p2s-stage1.is-settled.is-open → expanded on demand
Everything else (thinking-card, tool-card-row, msg-body) is the
existing app CSS unchanged.
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
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Design intent: nothing loud. A small "Answer" kicker in gold,
slightly taller line-height, the existing .msg-body styling,
and a gentle top breathing-space. The user arrives at this
block and it *feels* like a conclusion, not another tool row.
*/
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.p2s-answer-kicker{
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<body>
<header class="doc-header">
<div class="doc-title">
Two-Stage Chat UX — Proposal for <a href="https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/issues/536" target="_blank">issue #536</a>
<small>Companion to <a href="./index.html">index.html</a> — shows <em>Working → Final answer</em> as a distinct two-phase interaction model.</small>
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<strong style="font-size:10px;color:var(--muted);letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;align-self:center;margin-right:4px;">Theme</strong>
<button data-theme-btn="default">Default</button>
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<button data-theme-btn="light">Light</button>
<button data-theme-btn="solarized">Solarized</button>
<button data-theme-btn="monokai">Monokai</button>
<button data-theme-btn="nord">Nord</button>
<button data-theme-btn="oled">OLED</button>
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<main class="doc-main">
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<section class="doc-section">
<div class="doc-kicker">0 · The model</div>
<h2 class="doc-h">One turn, two stages</h2>
<p class="doc-note">
Today an assistant turn is a flat stream: thinking card → tool cards → answer, all stacked
inline with equal visual weight. The proposal wraps the execution history in a
<code>.p2s-stage1</code> container with a <em>worklog bar</em> as its header, and marks the
final answer as <code>.p2s-answer</code>. The same DOM renders three ways:
</p>
<ul class="doc-note" style="padding-left:18px;list-style:disc;">
<li><b>Live</b> — worklog shows <em>Working… 0:42 · 2 tools</em> with a pulsing dot; history is fully visible.</li>
<li><b>Settled</b> — worklog collapses to a single line (<em>Worked 1:42 · 4 tools · 2 thinking</em>); final answer sits below as the calm conclusion.</li>
<li><b>Settled + opened</b> — user clicks the worklog to re-expand the history for audit.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<section class="doc-section">
<div class="doc-kicker">1 · Current vs proposed — settled turn</div>
<h2 class="doc-h">Side-by-side comparison</h2>
<p class="doc-note">
Same turn, same tool calls, same answer. Left is what #587 ships today. Right is the
proposal: execution history collapses to a one-line summary; the final answer stands alone
with a small <em>Answer</em> kicker.
</p>
<div class="doc-grid-2">
<!-- CURRENT ──────────────────────────────────────────────── -->
<div class="doc-card"><span class="doc-label current">Current (PR #587)</span>
<div class="messages doc-messages"><div class="messages-inner doc-inner">
<div class="msg-row" data-role="user">
<div class="msg-body"><p>Does our dev server pick up the workspace from an env var or a flag?</p></div>
</div>
<div class="msg-row assistant-turn" data-role="assistant">
<div class="msg-role assistant"><span class="role-icon assistant">H</span><span>Hermes</span></div>
<div class="assistant-turn-blocks"><div class="assistant-segment">
<div class="thinking-card open">
<div class="thinking-card-header">
<span class="thinking-card-icon">💡</span>
<span class="thinking-card-label">Thought for 3.1s</span>
<span class="thinking-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
<div class="thinking-card-body"><pre>Check how the CLI resolves workspace:
grep for HERMES_WORKSPACE and --workspace
inspect argv vs env precedence.</pre></div>
</div>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card open">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon"></span>
<span class="tool-card-name">bash</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">grep -rn "HERMES_WORKSPACE" . · exit 0</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-detail">
<div class="tool-card-result"><pre>cli/main.py:14:WORKSPACE_ENV = "HERMES_WORKSPACE"
cli/main.py:92: ws = os.getenv(WORKSPACE_ENV) or args.workspace</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon">📄</span>
<span class="tool-card-name">read_file</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">cli/main.py · 148 lines</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="msg-row assistant-turn" data-role="assistant">
<div class="msg-role assistant"><span class="role-icon assistant">H</span><span>Hermes</span></div>
<div class="assistant-turn-blocks"><div class="assistant-segment">
<div class="msg-body">
<p>Both work, but <strong>env wins</strong>. The CLI reads
<code>HERMES_WORKSPACE</code> first and only falls back to the
<code>--workspace</code> flag if the env var is unset.</p>
<p>So in practice:</p>
<ul>
<li>CI / daemons → set the env var.</li>
<li>Ad-hoc runs → pass <code>--workspace</code>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div></div>
</div>
</div></div>
<div class="doc-compare-caption">Everything stacks equally — the answer is just the next block.</div>
</div>
<!-- PROPOSED ─────────────────────────────────────────────── -->
<div class="doc-card"><span class="doc-label proposed">Proposed — two-stage, settled</span>
<div class="messages doc-messages"><div class="messages-inner doc-inner">
<div class="msg-row" data-role="user">
<div class="msg-body"><p>Does our dev server pick up the workspace from an env var or a flag?</p></div>
</div>
<div class="msg-row assistant-turn" data-role="assistant">
<div class="msg-role assistant"><span class="role-icon assistant">H</span><span>Hermes</span></div>
<div class="assistant-turn-blocks"><div class="assistant-segment">
<!-- Stage 1 — settled, collapsed to summary (click to expand) -->
<div class="p2s-stage1 is-settled" data-p2s-toggle>
<div class="p2s-worklog">
<span class="p2s-worklog-dot"></span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-label">Worked for 0:08</span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-stats">
<span><b>2</b> tools</span>
<span><b>1</b> thinking round</span>
</span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-caret"></span>
</div>
<div class="p2s-stage1-body">
<div class="thinking-card open">
<div class="thinking-card-header">
<span class="thinking-card-icon">💡</span>
<span class="thinking-card-label">Thought for 3.1s</span>
<span class="thinking-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
<div class="thinking-card-body"><pre>Check how the CLI resolves workspace:
grep for HERMES_WORKSPACE and --workspace
inspect argv vs env precedence.</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon"></span>
<span class="tool-card-name">bash</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">grep -rn "HERMES_WORKSPACE" . · exit 0</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon">📄</span>
<span class="tool-card-name">read_file</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">cli/main.py · 148 lines</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Stage 2 — the final answer -->
<div class="p2s-transition"></div>
<div class="p2s-answer">
<div class="p2s-answer-kicker">Answer</div>
<div class="msg-body">
<p>Both work, but <strong>env wins</strong>. The CLI reads
<code>HERMES_WORKSPACE</code> first and only falls back to the
<code>--workspace</code> flag if the env var is unset.</p>
<p>So in practice:</p>
<ul>
<li>CI / daemons → set the env var.</li>
<li>Ad-hoc runs → pass <code>--workspace</code>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div></div>
</div>
</div></div>
<div class="doc-compare-caption">Click the worklog bar to expand the execution history.</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
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<section class="doc-section">
<div class="doc-kicker">2 · Stage 1 · Live run</div>
<h2 class="doc-h">Working timer + live execution history</h2>
<p class="doc-note">
The worklog bar at the top is the anchor for the whole active run: pulsing dot, elapsed
timer that ticks every second, and live counts that increment as tool cards resolve.
Thinking cards and tool cards render inside <code>.p2s-stage1-body</code> exactly as today.
A <em>Round N</em> separator is inserted when the agent starts a new reasoning/tool cycle.
</p>
<div class="doc-card"><span class="doc-label proposed">.p2s-stage1.is-live — Round 1 done, Round 2 running</span>
<div class="messages doc-messages"><div class="messages-inner doc-inner">
<div class="msg-row assistant-turn" data-role="assistant">
<div class="msg-role assistant"><span class="role-icon assistant">H</span><span>Hermes</span></div>
<div class="assistant-turn-blocks"><div class="assistant-segment" data-live-assistant="1">
<div class="p2s-stage1 is-live">
<div class="p2s-worklog">
<span class="p2s-worklog-dot"></span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-label">Working… <span id="p2sTimer">0:42</span></span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-stats">
<span><b>3</b> tools</span>
<span><b>2</b> thinking</span>
</span>
</div>
<div class="p2s-stage1-body">
<div class="thinking-card open">
<div class="thinking-card-header">
<span class="thinking-card-icon">💡</span>
<span class="thinking-card-label">Thought for 2.4s</span>
<span class="thinking-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
<div class="thinking-card-body"><pre>Need to map the streaming code path first,
then check the persistence layer.</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon">📄</span>
<span class="tool-card-name">read_file</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">api/streaming.py · 612 lines</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon"></span>
<span class="tool-card-name">bash</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">grep -rn "tool_call_id" api/ · exit 0 · 88ms</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="p2s-round-sep">Round 2</div>
<div class="thinking-card">
<div class="thinking-card-header">
<span class="thinking-card-icon">💡</span>
<span class="thinking-card-label">Thought for 1.8s</span>
<span class="thinking-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
<div class="thinking-card-body"><pre>Streaming looks fine — drill into how
tool_calls get attached before save.</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card tool-card-running">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-running-dot"></span>
<span class="tool-card-icon"></span>
<span class="tool-card-name">bash</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">pytest tests/test_tool_call_persistence.py -q</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></div>
</div>
</div></div>
</div>
</section>
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<section class="doc-section">
<div class="doc-kicker">3 · Approve vs Clarify — placement</div>
<h2 class="doc-h">Approvals stay in Stage 1; Clarify moves to the transition</h2>
<p class="doc-note">
Per the issue: <em>approvals are part of doing the work</em> (they gate a single tool),
<em>clarifications stabilise the answer path</em> (they precede the conclusion). The
proposal keeps <code>.approval-card</code> inline among tool cards, and places
<code>.clarify-card</code> at the Stage 1 → Stage 2 seam, above the final answer.
</p>
<div class="doc-grid-2">
<!-- Approve inline in Stage 1 -->
<div class="doc-card"><span class="doc-label proposed">Approve card — inline in Stage 1</span>
<div class="messages doc-messages"><div class="messages-inner doc-inner">
<div class="msg-row assistant-turn" data-role="assistant">
<div class="msg-role assistant"><span class="role-icon assistant">H</span><span>Hermes</span></div>
<div class="assistant-turn-blocks"><div class="assistant-segment" data-live-assistant="1">
<div class="p2s-stage1 is-live">
<div class="p2s-worklog">
<span class="p2s-worklog-dot"></span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-label">Working… 0:18</span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-stats"><span><b>1</b> tool</span></span>
</div>
<div class="p2s-stage1-body">
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon"></span>
<span class="tool-card-name">bash</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">ls -la ~/.hermes/sessions · exit 0</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="approval-card doc-visible">
<div class="approval-card-header">
<span class="approval-card-icon">🔐</span>
<span class="approval-card-title">Approve command</span>
</div>
<div class="approval-card-body">
<p class="approval-card-desc">Hermes wants to run a potentially destructive command:</p>
<pre class="approval-card-cmd">rm -rf ~/.hermes/sessions/*.json.bak</pre>
</div>
<div class="approval-card-actions">
<button class="approval-btn approve">Approve</button>
<button class="approval-btn deny">Deny</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></div>
</div>
</div></div>
<div class="doc-compare-caption">Permission gate sits next to the tools it gates.</div>
</div>
<!-- Clarify at transition -->
<div class="doc-card"><span class="doc-label proposed">Clarify card — Stage 1 → Stage 2 transition</span>
<div class="messages doc-messages"><div class="messages-inner doc-inner">
<div class="msg-row assistant-turn" data-role="assistant">
<div class="msg-role assistant"><span class="role-icon assistant">H</span><span>Hermes</span></div>
<div class="assistant-turn-blocks"><div class="assistant-segment">
<div class="p2s-stage1 is-settled" data-p2s-toggle>
<div class="p2s-worklog">
<span class="p2s-worklog-dot"></span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-label">Worked for 0:12</span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-stats"><span><b>2</b> tools</span></span>
<span class="p2s-worklog-caret"></span>
</div>
<div class="p2s-stage1-body">
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon">📄</span>
<span class="tool-card-name">read_file</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">package.json · 48 lines</span>
<span class="tool-card-toggle"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="tool-card-row">
<div class="tool-card">
<div class="tool-card-header">
<span class="tool-card-icon"></span>
<span class="tool-card-name">bash</span>
<span class="tool-card-preview">ls src/ · exit 0</span>
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<span class="clarify-card-title">One quick question before I answer</span>
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<p>I can wire the dev server either as an <strong>npm script</strong> in the
existing <code>package.json</code>, or as a standalone <strong>CLI
entry-point</strong>. Which would you prefer?</p>
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<button class="clarify-opt">CLI entry-point</button>
<button class="clarify-opt">Let Hermes pick</button>
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<div class="doc-compare-caption">Stage 1 is already settled; the answer is paused on clarification.</div>
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<div class="doc-kicker">4 · Stage 2 · Calm conclusion</div>
<h2 class="doc-h">What the "Answer" stage looks like on its own</h2>
<p class="doc-note">
Three small choices distinguish Stage 2 from a regular text block:
(1) a thin horizontal divider above it, (2) a tiny gold <em>Answer</em> kicker aligned to
the text rail, (3) a slightly taller line-height. No heavy borders, no boxed treatment —
the emphasis comes from <em>what is missing around it</em>, not ornament.
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<div class="doc-card"><span class="doc-label proposed">.p2s-answer (Stage 1 collapsed above)</span>
<div class="messages doc-messages"><div class="messages-inner doc-inner">
<div class="msg-row assistant-turn" data-role="assistant">
<div class="msg-role assistant"><span class="role-icon assistant">H</span><span>Hermes</span></div>
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<span class="p2s-worklog-label">Worked for 1:42</span>
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<span><b>4</b> tools</span>
<span><b>2</b> thinking</span>
<span><b>1</b> approval</span>
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<div class="thinking-card"><div class="thinking-card-header"><span class="thinking-card-icon">💡</span><span class="thinking-card-label">Thought for 2.4s</span><span class="thinking-card-toggle"></span></div></div>
<div class="tool-card-row"><div class="tool-card"><div class="tool-card-header"><span class="tool-card-icon">📄</span><span class="tool-card-name">read_file</span><span class="tool-card-preview">api/streaming.py</span><span class="tool-card-toggle"></span></div></div></div>
<div class="tool-card-row"><div class="tool-card"><div class="tool-card-header"><span class="tool-card-icon"></span><span class="tool-card-name">bash</span><span class="tool-card-preview">grep -rn "tool_call_id" api/</span><span class="tool-card-toggle"></span></div></div></div>
<div class="p2s-round-sep">Round 2</div>
<div class="thinking-card"><div class="thinking-card-header"><span class="thinking-card-icon">💡</span><span class="thinking-card-label">Thought for 1.8s</span><span class="thinking-card-toggle"></span></div></div>
<div class="tool-card-row"><div class="tool-card"><div class="tool-card-header"><span class="tool-card-icon"></span><span class="tool-card-name">bash</span><span class="tool-card-preview">pytest -q · exit 0 · 2.4s</span><span class="tool-card-toggle"></span></div></div></div>
<div class="tool-card-row"><div class="tool-card"><div class="tool-card-header"><span class="tool-card-icon">✍️</span><span class="tool-card-name">edit_file</span><span class="tool-card-preview">api/streaming.py · +12 3</span><span class="tool-card-toggle"></span></div></div></div>
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<div class="p2s-answer-kicker">Answer</div>
<div class="msg-body">
<p>Tool-call persistence was breaking because <code>session.tool_calls</code> was
written <em>after</em> <code>s.save()</code> in <code>api/streaming.py</code>.
I moved the attach step above the save, and added a fallback that reconstructs
ordering from live tool-progress events when <code>tool_call_id</code> is absent
on older sessions.</p>
<p>Net result:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reloading mid-stream now preserves every tool card with args + output snippet.</li>
<li>Last-turn reasoning survives reload.</li>
<li>No schema migration needed — old sessions degrade gracefully.</li>
</ul>
<p>Covered by the new regression in <code>tests/test_tool_call_persistence.py</code>.</p>
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<span class="msg-time">11:42 AM · 2,481 tokens · 1.42s</span>
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<div class="doc-kicker">5 · Open-question answers (picked defaults)</div>
<h2 class="doc-h">What this proposal commits to</h2>
<div class="doc-card" style="padding:16px 20px;">
<ul style="color:var(--muted);font-size:13px;line-height:1.85;list-style:disc;padding-left:22px;margin:0;">
<li><b style="color:var(--text);">Stage 1 on settle →</b> <em>partial</em> collapse to a
single worklog bar with counts. Click to re-expand. No "nuke to black box", no "keep
everything open forever".</li>
<li><b style="color:var(--text);">Final answer placement →</b> sits <em>beneath</em> Stage 1,
not replacing it. Visual distinction comes from the divider + kicker + spacing, not from
a two-panel layout.</li>
<li><b style="color:var(--text);">Clarify placement →</b> at the Stage 1 → Stage 2 seam.
Approvals stay inline with tools.</li>
<li><b style="color:var(--text);">Timer →</b> lives on Stage 1 only. Stops when the agent
emits the first Stage 2 token; final label becomes "Worked for N:NN".</li>
<li><b style="color:var(--text);">Signal for "answer has started" →</b> first assistant
text delta after all tool calls have resolved and no new <code>tool_use</code> is pending
in the current round. Already present in the SSE stream per maintainer comment.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="doc-kicker">6 · DOM cheat-sheet</div>
<h2 class="doc-h">What changes vs index.html</h2>
<div class="doc-card" style="padding:14px 18px;">
<h3 style="font-size:13px;color:var(--text);margin:0 0 8px;">New wrappers</h3>
<ul style="color:var(--muted);font-size:12px;line-height:1.9;list-style:disc;padding-left:20px;">
<li><code>.p2s-stage1[is-live|is-settled][is-open]</code> — wraps the execution history inside an <code>.assistant-segment</code>.</li>
<li><code>.p2s-worklog</code> — header of Stage 1. Pulsing dot + label + counts + caret. Clickable when settled.</li>
<li><code>.p2s-stage1-body</code> — holds <code>.thinking-card</code> + <code>.tool-card-row</code> + <code>.p2s-round-sep</code>. Animated via <code>max-height</code>.</li>
<li><code>.p2s-round-sep</code> — inline horizontal separator between tool/reasoning rounds.</li>
<li><code>.p2s-transition</code> — thin gradient divider between Stage 1 and Stage 2.</li>
<li><code>.p2s-answer</code> — wraps the final <code>.msg-body</code> + <code>.msg-foot</code>.</li>
<li><code>.p2s-answer-kicker</code> — small gold <em>Answer</em> label.</li>
<li><code>.p2s-clarify-slot</code> — placement slot for <code>.clarify-card</code> at the Stage 1/2 seam.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="font-size:13px;color:var(--text);margin:14px 0 8px;">Unchanged</h3>
<ul style="color:var(--muted);font-size:12px;line-height:1.9;list-style:disc;padding-left:20px;">
<li><code>.thinking-card</code>, <code>.tool-card</code>, <code>.approval-card</code>, <code>.clarify-card</code>, <code>.msg-body</code>, <code>.msg-foot</code> — all existing app CSS and existing markup.</li>
<li><code>.assistant-turn-blocks</code> and <code>.assistant-segment</code> remain the top-level wrappers.</li>
<li>Tool cards still live as <code>.tool-card-row</code> siblings — now nested <em>inside</em> <code>.p2s-stage1-body</code> rather than as direct children of <code>.messages-inner</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="font-size:13px;color:var(--text);margin:14px 0 8px;">Implementation notes</h3>
<ul style="color:var(--muted);font-size:12px;line-height:1.9;list-style:disc;padding-left:20px;">
<li>Renderer in <code>static/messages.js</code> wraps an assistant turn's non-final blocks in <code>.p2s-stage1-body</code> and appends the <code>.p2s-worklog</code> header once; toggles <code>is-live</code>/<code>is-settled</code> based on <code>data-live-assistant</code>.</li>
<li><code>static/boot.js</code> SSE handler ticks the timer while <code>is-live</code>, increments counts on each <code>tool_use</code>, and flips the class when the first Stage 2 delta arrives.</li>
<li>Persistence: no schema change needed — the worklog summary can be derived on reload from the existing persisted tool-call list + thinking rounds.</li>
</ul>
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