# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Expandable/persistent tool call UI across clients

## Open now

- 4 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #1092: Feature: CLI Inspectable Tool Timeline — Expandable Tool Calls, Results, and Historical Event Inspection
- #16636: \[Feature\]: Expandable Tool Call Messages in TUI
- #40760: \[Feature\]: Hermes Desktop - Option to keep tool-call accordions permanently expanded in Desktop UI
- #40854: Feature Request: Collapsible/Foldable verbose output - tool calls should be expandable
- PR #16637: feat(tui): add expandable tool call UI with per-tool detail expansion
- PR #40894: feat(desktop): add option to keep tool-call accordions expanded

These issues and PRs concern adding expandable, collapsible, or persistently expanded tool call displays in the TUI, desktop, and CLI interfaces. They also include a related fix for message handling before final output.

## TL;DR

- 9 member(s): 4 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.15`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #1092: Feature: CLI Inspectable Tool Timeline — Expandable Tool Calls, Results, and Historical Event Inspection
- #16636: \[Feature\]: Expandable Tool Call Messages in TUI
- #40760: \[Feature\]: Hermes Desktop - Option to keep tool-call accordions permanently expanded in Desktop UI
- #40854: Feature Request: Collapsible/Foldable verbose output - tool calls should be expandable

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #53417: Desktop app: add toggle to show full message history (reasoning + tool calls)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#16637: feat(tui): add expandable tool call UI with per-tool detail expansion**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `tui_gateway/server.py`, `ui-tui/src/__tests__/createGatewayEventHandler.test.ts`, `ui-tui/src/__tests__/messages.test.ts`, `ui-tui/src/__tests__/virtualHeights.test.ts`, `ui-tui/src/app/createGatewayEventHandler.ts`, `ui-tui/src/app/turnController.ts`, `ui-tui/src/app/turnStore.ts`, `ui-tui/src/app/useMainApp.ts`, `ui-tui/src/components/ExpandableToolCall.tsx`, `ui-tui/src/components/messageLine.tsx`, `ui-tui/src/components/thinking.tsx`, `ui-tui/src/components/treeRow.tsx`, `ui-tui/src/domain/messages.ts`, `ui-tui/src/gatewayTypes.ts`, `ui-tui/src/lib/liveProgress.test.ts`, `ui-tui/src/lib/messages.test.ts`, `ui-tui/src/lib/virtualHeights.ts`, `ui-tui/src/types.ts`
- **#40792: feat(desktop): add option to keep tool-call accordions permanently expanded**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#40894: feat(desktop): add option to keep tool-call accordions expanded**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `fa7bce078`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/appearance-settings.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool-fallback.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/tool-view.ts`
- **#40942: feat(desktop): add 'Keep Tool Calls Expanded' toggle in Appearance settings**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#40894`, `#40760`, `#40894`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`