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+{"parentUuid":"94799c73-2dbb-4091-88db-efa9361d4fe9","isSidechain":true,"promptId":"67fcde4a-7483-4526-a2da-9ae9514890c8","agentId":"a904d9f45d6b86a6d","type":"user","message":{"role":"user","content":[{"tool_use_id":"toolu_01Vp9LoTYexJQgXL3XmhcyoA","type":"tool_result","content":"Web search results for query: \"Claude Code agent progress reporting \"I'll\" OR \"searching\" OR \"reading\" communication style how explains steps\"\n\nLinks: [{\"title\":\"Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions - Claude Code Docs\",\"url\":\"https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams\"},{\"title\":\"Skill authoring best practices - Claude API Docs\",\"url\":\"https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/best-practices\"},{\"title\":\"Skills | Claude\",\"url\":\"https://claude.com/skills\"},{\"title\":\"Claude Code Agent Teams: The Complete Guide 2026\",\"url\":\"https://claudefa.st/blog/guide/agents/agent-teams\"},{\"title\":\"Prompting best practices - Claude Docs\",\"url\":\"https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-4-best-practices\"},{\"title\":\"Agent Skills - Claude API Docs\",\"url\":\"https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview\"},{\"title\":\"Prompting best practices - Claude API Docs\",\"url\":\"https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices\"},{\"title\":\"Claude Agent Skills: A First Principles Deep Dive\",\"url\":\"https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2025/10/26/claude-skills-deep-dive/\"},{\"title\":\"GitHub - hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code: A curated list of awesome skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, applications, and plugins for Claude Code by Anthropic · GitHub\",\"url\":\"https://github.com/hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code\"},{\"title\":\"How to Use Claude Code: A Guide to Slash Commands, Agents, Skills, and Plug-ins\",\"url\":\"https://www.producttalk.org/how-to-use-claude-code-features/\"}]\n\nBased on my search results, I can provide you with information about Claude's communication style regarding progress reporting and how it explains steps:\n\n## Communication Style\n\nClaude 4.5 models have a more concise and natural communication style compared to previous models, providing fact-based progress reports rather than self-celebratory updates, and is more conversational and colloquial, less machine-like.\n\nClaude 4.5 models tend toward efficiency and may skip verbal summaries after tool calls, jumping directly to the next action. However, if you want Claude to provide updates as it works, you can instruct it to provide a quick summary after completing a task that involves tool use.\n\n## How Claude Explains Steps\n\nComplex operations should be broken into clear, sequential steps, and for particularly complex workflows, a checklist can be provided that Claude can copy into its response and check off as it progresses.\n\nIn team-based agent contexts, one session acts as the team lead that coordinates work, assigns tasks, and synthesizes results, allowing for clear communication of progress across collaborative work.\n\nThe search results show that Claude's approach to explaining steps emphasizes clarity, progressiveness, and only including detail as needed—avoiding unnecessary verbosity while maintaining clear guidance through complex workflows.\n\n\nREMINDER: You MUST include the sources above in your response to the user using markdown hyperlinks."}]},"uuid":"fe589789-218f-4342-9e78-94cb6105f5c0","timestamp":"2026-03-20T13:36:03.466Z","sourceToolAssistantUUID":"94799c73-2dbb-4091-88db-efa9361d4fe9","userType":"external","entrypoint":"cli","cwd":"/Users/mohamedabdallah/Work/Wazir","sessionId":"0c5a9bfa-6816-42b1-a97d-37ae7dad26c5","version":"2.1.80","gitBranch":"feat/remaining-6-fixes","slug":"mighty-wondering-giraffe"}
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Too much can overwhelm them with irrelevant details.\" They acknowledge this is an unsolved design challenge they are still iterating on.\n- **Practical benefit framing:** Transparency is not just for trust -- it enables quick diagnosis when things go wrong, reduces user skepticism, and empowers users to understand how conclusions are reached.\n\nSource: [Building Effective AI Agents](https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents)\n\n## 2. Anthropic's \"Effective Context Engineering\" Patterns\n\nPublished September 2025, this post reframes the problem: it is not about finding the right words but about \"what configuration of context is most likely to generate the model's desired behavior.\" Three patterns are directly relevant to showing reasoning:\n\n- **Compaction:** Summarize conversation history when it gets long. The agent writes a condensed version of what happened so far, which doubles as a progress report a user or future context window can read.\n- **Note-taking / scratchpad:** Agents write to a file like `claude-progress.txt` that captures: what was completed, what is in progress, what is blocked. This is both an internal mechanism and an external transparency artifact.\n- **Git commits as checkpoints:** The agent uses `git log` and `git diff` to reconstruct state after context resets. Each commit message becomes a micro-report of progress.\n\nThe key insight: **the same artifacts that help the agent maintain coherence across context windows also serve as human-readable progress reports.** Build once, serve both audiences.\n\nSource: [Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents)\n\n## 3. Claude's Built-in Communication Patterns\n\nClaude 4.5+ models have specific behavioral defaults relevant here:\n\n- **Concise by default.** They provide fact-based progress reports rather than self-celebratory updates. They tend toward efficiency, sometimes skipping verbal summaries after tool calls and jumping directly to the next action.\n- **Configurable verbosity.** If you want updates, you instruct the model to \"provide a quick summary after completing a task that involves tool use.\" This is opt-in, not opt-out.\n- **Checklist pattern.** For complex workflows, you provide a checklist that the model copies into its response and checks off items as it progresses. This gives a visual progress bar effect.\n\nSource: [Prompting Best Practices](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-4-best-practices)\n\n## 4. Chain-of-Thought Visibility: The Tiered Approach\n\nResearch from multiple sources converges on the same answer: **do not show all reasoning; use progressive disclosure.**\n\n- **UiPath (2025):** \"Self-critique prompts force the AI agent to output the reasoning behind its decisions. Including 'reasoning' fields in the agent's output increases trace quality.\"\n- **Academic research (2025):** A tiered-access framework is proposed -- full CoT for developers/debuggers, summarized reasoning for business users, one-line status for general users.\n- **Named-step decomposition:** Instead of one opaque process, break work into named steps (`:retrieve_docs`, `:rank_snippets`). Each step name alone communicates intent without needing explanation.\n\nSources: [UiPath Best Practices](https://www.uipath.com/blog/ai/agent-builder-best-practices), [Policy Frameworks for Transparent CoT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14521)\n\n## 5. Devin's Communication Style\n\nDevin operates as a \"teammate in Slack\" and its communication pattern is:\n\n- **Trigger:** User tags `@Devin` with a task.\n- **Plan announcement:** Devin posts an analysis comment with a plan outline and asks \"Start session?\"\n- **In-thread updates:** Devin replies in-thread with progress, questions, and blockers -- like a junior engineer posting to a PR thread.\n- **Completion signal:** When the PR lands, Devin posts \"Merged\" back to the channel.\n- **PR link pattern:** Every PR includes a \"Devin Review\" link so the organized diff is one click away.\n\nThe design philosophy: communicate like another engineer on the team, not like a tool outputting logs. The unit of communication is the Slack thread, and each message maps to a human-meaningful state change (plan, question, done).\n\nSources: [Slack - Devin Docs](https://docs.devin.ai/integrations/slack), [Devin June '24 Product Update](https://cognition.ai/blog/june-24-product-update)\n\n## 6. Cursor Agent's \"Thinking\" Indicator\n\nCursor's approach has evolved:\n\n- **Structured status lines:** Rather than streaming raw chain-of-thought, Cursor shows \"I am doing this\" / \"now I am doing this\" statements that arrive as a series of status updates, not a stream-of-consciousness.\n- **Greyed-out reasoning:** Part of the thinking process is visible but greyed out, signaling \"reasoning happened here\" without demanding the user read it.\n- **Cursor Blame:** Each line of generated code links to a summary of the conversation that produced it -- the reasoning is attached to the artifact, not shown in real-time.\n- **Community tension:** Users have requested making full thinking visible so they can interrupt. Cursor is balancing transparency against cognitive overload.\n\nSources: [Cursor Features](https://cursor.com/features), [Cursor Community Forum](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-can-you-make-thinking-visible/147544)\n\n## 7. Production Chatbot Patterns (Perplexity, ChatGPT)\n\n**Perplexity Pro Search:**\n- Shows a step-by-step plan, then executes each step sequentially.\n- Uses expandable/collapsible sections: the top level shows step names (\"Searching for X\", \"Reading Y\"), and users can expand to see details.\n- Design philosophy from their head of design: *\"You don't want to overload the user with too much information until they are actually curious. Then, you feed their curiosity.\"*\n\n**ChatGPT Deep Research:**\n- A sidebar shows a summary of steps taken and sources used.\n- Live progress updates stream in.\n- Reasoning models show a \"thinking...\" spinner, then present both the reasoning chain and the final answer.\n- Notable: reasoning models have started hiding intermediate web searches -- only the first search is visible, the rest disappear. This is a deliberate choice to reduce noise.\n\nSources: [Perplexity UX - NN/g](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/perplexity-henry-modisett/), [OpenAI Deep Research](https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/)\n\n---\n\n## The Core Answer: Progressive Disclosure at Three Levels\n\nThe pattern that emerges across all sources is **progressive disclosure** -- the same principle from 1990s GUI design, applied to agent reasoning. The consensus framework:\n\n**Layer 1 (Status Line):** What am I doing right now?\n**Layer 2 (Paragraph):** Why am I doing this, and what did I find?\n**Layer 3 (Full Report):** Complete reasoning chain, sources, alternatives considered.\n\nSources: [Progressive Disclosure for AI Agents](https://www.honra.io/articles/progressive-disclosure-for-ai-agents), [AI UX Design Patterns](https://www.aiuxdesign.guide/patterns/progressive-disclosure)\n\n---\n\n## Concrete Conversation Templates\n\n### Level 1: One-liner (Status line)\n\nPurpose: Keep the user oriented without interrupting flow. Use when the task is proceeding normally.\n\n```\nResearching auth token expiry -- the session timeout config drives this.\n```\n\n```\nReading package.json to check dependency versions.\n```\n\n```\nSearching for all callers of handleWebhook() -- need to know the blast radius.\n```\n\nPattern: **[verb]ing [what] -- [why in half a sentence].**\n\nThe dash-separated \"why\" clause is what separates this from a raw log line. It answers \"should I care?\" in five words.\n\nMore examples:\n\n```\nChecking CI logs -- the test that failed imports from this module.\n```\n\n```\nComparing v2 and v3 API responses -- the schema changed and that may explain the 422s.\n```\n\n```\nSkipping the migration file -- it only affects the staging DB, not relevant here.\n```\n\nAnti-pattern to avoid:\n```\nI'm now going to look at the file to understand what's happening.\n```\n(No specificity, no \"why\", no information the user can act on.)\n\n---\n\n### Level 2: Paragraph (Decision explanation)\n\nPurpose: Explain a non-obvious choice, a fork in the road, or a finding that changes direction. Use when the user might otherwise wonder \"why did it do that?\"\n\n```\nThe retry logic in queue-worker.ts catches all errors and re-enqueues \nunconditionally. This means transient failures (network timeout) and permanent \nfailures (malformed payload) get the same treatment -- permanent failures will \nretry forever. I'm focusing the fix on adding error classification before the \nre-enqueue step, because without it the dead-letter queue never receives \nanything.\n```\n\nPattern: **[What I found] + [Why it matters] + [What I'm doing about it].**\n\nMore examples:\n\n```\nThere are two auth middleware files: auth.ts (Express) and auth.middleware.ts \n(NestJS). The app bootstraps with Express, so auth.ts is the one that actually \nruns. I'm ignoring the NestJS file -- it appears to be dead code from a \nmigration that was never completed.\n```\n\n```\nThe test expects a 200 but the endpoint returns 204 on empty results. This is \ncorrect API behavior (RFC 7231), so I'm updating the test expectation rather \nthan changing the endpoint. The three downstream clients I checked all handle \n204 already.\n```\n\nAnti-pattern to avoid:\n```\nI noticed something interesting about the retry logic. Let me explain what I \nfound. The queue worker has a catch block that re-enqueues messages. This is \nproblematic because it doesn't distinguish between error types. There are \nseveral types of errors that could occur. Let me walk through them...\n```\n(Buries the lead, narrates the thinking process instead of the conclusion.)\n\n---\n\n### Level 3: Full Report (Structured summary)\n\nPurpose: End-of-task summary, or mid-task checkpoint for a long-running operation. Use when the user needs to make a decision or review work.\n\n```\n## Auth token expiry investigation\n\n**Root cause:** Session tokens use a 24h TTL set in redis.conf, but the JWT \nrefresh token has a 1h expiry hardcoded in auth-service/token.ts:47. Users \nwhose sessions last >1h get silently logged out because the refresh fails \nbefore the session expires.\n\n**What I changed:**\n- auth-service/token.ts -- refresh expiry now reads from config (default: 24h \n  to match session TTL)\n- redis.conf -- no change needed, already correct\n- Added test: token-refresh.test.ts covers the >1h session case\n\n**What I did NOT change:**\n- The mobile app caches tokens locally and has its own 30min refresh cycle. \n  That's a separate issue (see mobile-auth.ts:112).\n\n**Risk:** If any client depends on the 1h refresh window to force re-auth \n(e.g., for compliance), this change removes that behavior. I found no evidence \nof this in the codebase, but it's worth confirming with the team.\n```\n\nPattern: **Root cause + Changes made + Scope boundaries + Risks.**\n\nThe \"What I did NOT change\" section is critical. It answers the question the user is already thinking: \"did it touch the thing I was worried about?\"\n\n---\n\n### Choosing the Right Level\n\n| Situation | Level | Signal to watch for |\n|---|---|---|\n| Normal progress, things going as expected | 1 (one-liner) | No surprises |\n| Found something unexpected, changing approach | 2 (paragraph) | The \"why\" is non-obvious |\n| Completing a task, hitting a decision point, or user asked for status | 3 (full report) | User needs to act or approve |\n| Task failed or I'm blocked | 2 or 3 | Always explain failures at paragraph level minimum |\n\n---\n\n### The Key Formula\n\nThe question you posed -- *\"how do you show 'I'm researching X because Y, and without this Z would go wrong' without being verbose?\"* -- has a specific answer that every source converges on:\n\n**Name the action. State the dependency. Omit the journey.**\n\n```\nChecking rate-limit config -- the 429s will recur if the per-IP limit is \nstill at default.\n```\n\nThis is 15 words. It contains: what (checking rate-limit config), why (429s will recur), the consequence of not doing it (limit is still at default). It does not contain: \"I decided to look at this because...\", \"Let me explain my reasoning...\", \"First I considered X but then...\".\n\nThe reasoning is implicit in the dependency chain. If the user wants the full chain, they can ask -- and that is when you escalate to Level 2 or Level 3.\n\n---\n\nSources:\n- [Anthropic: Building Effective AI Agents](https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents)\n- [Anthropic: Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents)\n- [Perplexity UX Analysis - Nielsen Norman Group](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/perplexity-henry-modisett/)\n- [OpenAI: Introducing Deep Research](https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/)\n- [Slack - Devin Docs](https://docs.devin.ai/integrations/slack)\n- [Cognition: Devin Product Update](https://cognition.ai/blog/june-24-product-update)\n- [Cursor Features](https://cursor.com/features)\n- [Cursor Community Forum: Making Thinking Visible](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-can-you-make-thinking-visible/147544)\n- [Progressive Disclosure for AI Agents](https://www.honra.io/articles/progressive-disclosure-for-ai-agents)\n- [AI UX Design Patterns: Progressive Disclosure](https://www.aiuxdesign.guide/patterns/progressive-disclosure)\n- [UiPath: 10 Best Practices for Building Reliable AI Agents](https://www.uipath.com/blog/ai/agent-builder-best-practices)\n- [Policy Frameworks for Transparent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14521)\n- [9 UX Patterns for Trustworthy AI Assistants](https://orangeloops.com/2025/07/9-ux-patterns-to-build-trustworthy-ai-assistants/)\n- [Claude Prompting Best Practices](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-4-best-practices)"}],"stop_reason":"end_turn","stop_sequence":null,"usage":{"input_tokens":1,"cache_creation_input_tokens":3567,"cache_read_input_tokens":20905,"output_tokens":3757,"server_tool_use":{"web_search_requests":0,"web_fetch_requests":0},"service_tier":"standard","cache_creation":{"ephemeral_1h_input_tokens":0,"ephemeral_5m_input_tokens":3567},"inference_geo":"","iterations":[],"speed":"standard"}},"requestId":"req_011CZERWGmjDiRRLUvT2fgyW","type":"assistant","uuid":"2f2644f4-b96f-47f8-83d1-dc10917690b8","timestamp":"2026-03-20T13:39:14.761Z","userType":"external","entrypoint":"cli","cwd":"/Users/mohamedabdallah/Work/Wazir","sessionId":"0c5a9bfa-6816-42b1-a97d-37ae7dad26c5","version":"2.1.80","gitBranch":"feat/remaining-6-fixes","slug":"mighty-wondering-giraffe"}