Option to collapse/hide Edit and Write tool-call diffs in the CLI transcript

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Activity 1 comment · opened Aug 19, 2026 · closed Aug 20, 2026

When Claude runs several Edit/Write tool calls in a row, each one renders its full diff inline in the terminal transcript. There's currently no setting, flag, or UI toggle to collapse or suppress this — unlike Read calls, which render as a brief one-liner.

For workflows where the assistant is doing a lot of file editing in the background (e.g. maintaining notes/logs) and the user only cares about the final summary, this creates a lot of scroll noise between actual conversational messages, with no way to reduce it short of /clear, which wipes the whole session rather than just collapsing tool output.

Would like an option (settings.json flag or a keybinding) to collapse Edit/Write diffs to a one-line summary by default, expandable on demand — similar to how some terminal UIs fold long command output.

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