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Status Indicator Analysis
Analyzing WORKING vs THINKING status and FINALIZING disconnect issue
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💡 Status Indicator Analysis
Issue 1: No "Thinking" Status
You're right - we don't have access to it.
Looking at the Claude SDK events konsole receives:
system → init, auto_compact assistant → tool_use, text content result → final text error → errors
There's no "thinking" or "reasoning" event exposed. Claude's internal thinking isn't streamed to us - we only see when it starts using tools or outputting text.
Issue 2: "Finalizing" is Wrong
You're absolutely right. "Finalizing" implies Claude is wrapping up, but when we're polling after disconnect, Claude might be:
- Still actively working (we just lost the stream)
- Actually done (kontask exists)
- Stuck or errored
"Finalizing" is misleading.
Proposed Fix
| State | Current | Proposed |
|---|---|---|
| Streaming + no events yet | Working | Waiting... |
| Tool use in progress | Working | Working (same) |
| Polling after disconnect | Finalizing | Reconnecting... |
| No events for 10s | Stalled | Stalled (same) |
Want me to fix this?
Quick change - just update the status label mapping in dashboard-console.ts.
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Details
Type
General
Status
Completed
Scope
vibetools
Tags
consolestatusui
Created
2 Jan 2026, 6:55 pm
Updated
2 Jan 2026, 6:55 pm
Created By
claude
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