Feature request: show timestamps on messages in conversation
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Apr 16, 2026 by pleasedodisturb Closed Apr 20, 2026
Problem
During long sessions (30-90+ minutes with background tasks, CI waits, parallel agents), there's no way to see when each message or tool call happened. This makes it hard to:
- Understand how long a step actually took
- Correlate chat events with external logs (CI runs, API calls, background processes)
- Review session history and reconstruct timing
Proposed solution
Add optional timestamps to messages in the conversation view:
- A setting like
showTimestamps: truein settings.json - Subtle
HH:MMon each message (like Slack hover timestamps) - Tool call results already track duration internally — surface it
Context
This came up during a session with 6 parallel worktree agents, 120+ API calls, and CI waits spanning ~90 minutes. Impossible to tell when things happened without checking external logs.
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