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UI: model thinking spinner provides no visible progress indication (just loops back-and-forth for 10-20 min) #26381
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Description
When opencode is processing/thinking, the UI shows only a looping spinner animation. It goes back and forth with no indication of:
- Whether progress is being made
- How far along the thinking is
- Time elapsed or estimated time remaining
- Any stateful change at all
This is especially frustrating when thinking takes 10-20 minutes — users are left staring at an unchanging spinner with no feedback that anything is actually happening.
Expected
Some form of visible progress would be helpful, such as:
- A token count / characters streamed showing output is being generated
- Time elapsed since thinking started
- A progress bar or step indicator
- Even a small animated cursor that shows the model is actively producing tokens
Environment
- macOS (Apple Silicon)
- opencode CLI (latest)
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github-actions commentedon May 8, 2026
This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:
kommander commentedon May 11, 2026
You can show the thinking output with
/thinkingor by enabling thinking output in the command palette withctrl+p(default). There is no way to tell how far along the thinking is or when the model will be done.github-actions commentedon Jul 10, 2026
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