The top of an answer is one line that says what the Coach is doing right
now (thinking, fetching a metric, summarising the readings, writing),
live from the activity frames, with the seconds so far. It never opens
by itself: the trail stays closed while the turn runs, when it asks,
when it stops early, after the answer and after a reload, and opens
only on a tap. Once the answer is in, the line settles into one summary
of lookups and seconds. A table read during the turn shows as a
one-line preview with a sparkline until the answer takes it over.
Clarifying choices, follow-ups and the answers to a fact or plan
proposal share one pattern: quiet pills in the answer's column whose
tap sends the label as the person's own message. The clarification
card and the in-thread plan card are gone. A fact the Coach kept is one
meta line with Undo, an assumption one line with Change. The remember
button on a message now keeps it in the Coach's memory.
Inside a chat turn every tool read lands on the turn's shared full-source
snapshot when its window matches. On an account with many synced series
that build passes the prompt budget, and the budget pass collapses blocks
to a bare unit and then to an `{ omitted }` marker. get_metric_series
sliced the marker out and answered `present: true` with it, so the model
was told the readings exist and was given no figure. The same held for
sleep, glucose, compliance and workouts.
- The snapshot result names the blocks the budget pass cut. A tool whose
block was cut in the shared build reads it again from its own source at
the same window.
- A read scoped to one source condenses its own blocks last and never
swaps them for the marker: it keeps a summary (first, last, min, max,
mean, change) taken before anything is cut, the newest daily values,
weekly means folded into monthly means, and names each cut.
- get_metric_series never answers present with a block holding no figure;
that read reports retrieval_failed instead.
- A chat series read carries the readings it counted, so the step shows
them, and on a long or condensed window a note on what it covers. The
tool description and a new tool-mode rule tell the model to call
get_metric_table itself for longer history instead of asking.
- The screen-reader comma between step parts is unselectable, so a copied
row no longer reads "Weight · ,all time".
MCP output is unchanged: the source-snapshot equality suite stays green.
Marc-André Bombeck