Feature request: progress indicator for long-running background tasks (/code-review, background agents)
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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 16, 2026
When a skill or agent runs in the background (e.g. /code-review launches as a background task), the only visibility is /tasks showing a running/finished status. For multi-minute tasks it is hard to tell whether anything is happening.
Request: a lightweight progress indicator for background tasks in the terminal UI, e.g.:
- a phase/step readout (files reviewed so far, current stage) surfaced from the agent, and/or
- a progress bar or spinner with elapsed time directly in the status line / task list, updating live.
Even coarse progress (stage names, N-of-M items) would make long reviews much easier to babysit.
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