[FEATURE] Stream thoughts word-by-word during task execution instead of displaying all at completion

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Problem Statement

I deeply miss the old word-by-word stream of thoughts.

With the new verbose setting, all of Claude's thoughts can be made visible, but they only appear once Claude moves on to a next step, i.e. calling a tool. In my workflow, this mostly defeats the purpose of seeing thoughts.
In previous versions of Claude Code, I monitored its stream of thoughts during the task to assess whether I like the approach it's taking, or intervene if it's confused, or making assumptions about intent which I didn't want it to make.
In the current version, I can only sit and wait for minutes and hope it's doing the right thing.

If nothing else, watching it think was much more entertaining than just staring at a "thinking..." timer.

Proposed Solution

Rather than high verbosity simply controlling whether you get a big block of thoughts at the end, thoughts should be shown word-by-word as Claude works.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

High - Significant impact on productivity

Feature Category

Configuration and settings

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