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Follow-up to #12270. A collapsed thought row only said "Thought", so reading the trace meant expanding the row. The row now reads "Thought" followed by the first line of the latest trace, one shade dimmer than the label, truncated to the row. The "(×n)" thought count is gone from the label on web and mobile; the expanded group still lists every trace.

  • ActivityGroupTimelineRow passes the preview as a new detail slot on LiveActivityRow. The slot renders only in the base copy, so the shimmer overlay still animates the bare "Thinking" label with its usual contrast. Rows whose group has tool calls keep the tool summary.
  • The standalone reasoning row shows the same preview after "Thought". Its visibility still depends on the trace having text, not on the preview.
  • reasoningPreview scans a 400-character prefix, strips leading markdown marks, and returns the first non-empty line, so a streaming trace does constant work per tick.

MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts (120 tests), threadActivity.test.ts (108 tests), web and mobile typecheck, lint, and knip pass on Blacksmith. All captures below come from this branch running against a copy of real thread data, plus one real Claude Fable 5.1 turn.

Collapsed rows

collapsed thought rows read Thought followed by the first line of the trace

Expand and collapse

Clicking a row opens every trace in that group; clicking again folds it. mp4

expanding a Thought row shows its traces, clicking again collapses it

a thought group expanded lists each trace in full

Live turn

A real turn on Claude Fable 5.1 at high reasoning: the prompt asks for a step-by-step answer, a failing ls, then echo ok. The live row shimmers "Thinking", shows the trace's first line beside it once the text lands, hands off to the tool rows, and settles behind "Worked for". mp4

a live Claude turn: Thinking shimmer, tool rows, then the settled fold

the live Thinking row before any trace text arrives

the settled turn expanded: the thought sits inside the tool group with the failed ls

Unverified: the mobile label change has no screenshot. In the live turn the thought's text arrived a moment before the first tool call, so the "Thinking" row with a preview beside it is on screen only briefly in the recording.

Written by Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code via T3 Code.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a contained presentation enhancement that adds a bounded thought preview and removes a redundant count from existing labels. It preserves activity grouping, counts, stored data, and interaction behavior, with no sensitive, schema, deployment, or static-analysis changes.

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The chat timeline extracts the first non-empty reasoning line and displays it as dimmed detail after thought labels. Grouped reasoning labels now use plain Thought text without message counts.

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Reasoning Preview Timeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Extract reasoning previews
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
The timeline extracts the first non-empty line from reasoning text, removes leading Markdown markers, and supplies previews to thought-labelled rows.
Render activity details
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
LiveActivityRow and LiveActivityContent accept optional detail text and render it after the label. Shimmer copy excludes the detail.
Use plain Thought labels
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts
Grouped reasoning labels no longer include hidden reasoning-message counts. The mobile test expects the plain Thought summary.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ReasoningTimelineRow
  participant reasoningPreview
  participant LiveActivityRow
  participant LiveActivityContent
  ReasoningTimelineRow->>reasoningPreview: pass reasoning text
  reasoningPreview-->>ReasoningTimelineRow: return first non-empty line
  ReasoningTimelineRow->>LiveActivityRow: pass preview as detail
  LiveActivityRow->>LiveActivityContent: forward detail
  LiveActivityContent-->>ReasoningTimelineRow: render label and dimmed detail
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A narrow grouped-thought case can omit its inline preview despite available reasoning text. Address this bounded UI regression before merge.

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🟡 Minor · Select the latest non-empty reasoning entry for the preview. · MessagesTimeline.tsx:2618-2622

apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx:2618-2622
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Select the latest non-empty reasoning entry for the preview.

When the last message in row.entries is empty or whitespace-only, findLast selects it and reasoningPreview returns undefined. An earlier visible trace in the same group then loses its preview.

Search from the end for a message whose reasoningPreview is defined. Preserve empty active messages as streaming placeholders.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx` around lines 2618 - 2622,
Update the latestThought selection near reasoningPreview to search backward for
the last message whose reasoningPreview is defined, so earlier visible traces
remain previewable when a trailing message is empty or whitespace-only. Preserve
empty active messages as streaming placeholders and keep the existing
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- Around line 2618-2622: Update the latestThought selection near
reasoningPreview to search backward for the last message whose reasoningPreview
is defined, so earlier visible traces remain previewable when a trailing message
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