Activity grouping & thinking

When Enkaidu is working on a task, it does more than just produce a text answer. It thinks, calls tools, reports status — and none of that disappears. But a long multi-step run can generate a lot of intermediate output that you rarely want to scroll through after the fact.

Activity grouping solves this: consecutive “working” entries (thinking blocks, tool calls, status messages) are automatically folded into a single compact accordion.

The collapsed view

While Enkaidu is mid-run, the group shows a line with the current step and a pulsing dot indicating it’s still working. Once a response arrives, the group collapses to a single line:

4 steps

You can expand it at any time to see what happened.

A collapsed activity group showing a step count, with the final response below it

The expanded view

Expanding the group reveals each individual step in sequence. Typical contents:

Thinking blocks — Enkaidu’s reasoning, shown in dimmed text inside a collapsible “Thinking” header. These auto-open while streaming (so you can watch the reasoning come together) and auto-collapse once the next event arrives. You can click to expand them again later.
Tool call cards — each tool invocation shown as a short card with a reason (why it ran) and the parameters it used, in a small table format. Expandable for the full detail.
Status messages — brief info, warning, or success messages the agent emitted along the way.

An expanded activity group showing thinking, tool calls, and status messages

Standalone entries

If only one working entry appears before the response (e.g., a single tool call with no surrounding activity), it renders as its own card rather than being wrapped in a group. The grouping only kicks in when there are two or more consecutive working entries, so short exchanges stay uncluttered.