fix: show only the thinking indicator while the model thinks

[elkaix]

Related Issue

No issue — the problem is explained below.

Problem

While the model thinks, the TUI streams the thinking text into the transcript under the animated indicator. The streamed reasoning is distracting; the user only needs the indicator itself, sitting above the prompt area.

What changed

• Collapsed live thinking now renders only the spinner + shimmer label line (which sits directly above the prompt as the newest transcript entry).
• Finalized thinking blocks render nothing while collapsed, so past reasoning no longer occupies the transcript.
• Ctrl+O (expand tool output) still reveals the full thinking text, live or finalized.
• Updated the component and message-flow tests to the new contract.

Checklist

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• I have linked a related issue, or explained the problem above.
• I have added tests that prove my feature works.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Thinking text is now hidden from the transcript by default while the model is processing.
  • The animated thinking indicator remains visible during processing.
  • Expand thinking with Ctrl+O to view live content or the complete finalized text.
• Bug Fixes
  • Finalized thinking content no longer displays a collapsed preview or truncation hint.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The TUI now hides thinking text when collapsed. Live collapsed thinking shows only its spinner header. Finalized collapsed thinking renders no lines. Expanded live thinking keeps its preview limit, while expanded finalized thinking renders all content.

Changes

Thinking display behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Thinking rendering and validation apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/messages/thinking.ts, apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/components/messages/thinking.test.ts, apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/pythinker-tui-message-flow.test.ts, .changeset/thinking-indicator-only.md	Collapsed live thinking shows only the spinner header. Collapsed finalized thinking renders no lines. Expanded live thinking keeps its preview-line limit. Expanded finalized thinking renders all content without a truncation hint. Tests and the patch changeset reflect the updated behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9c977

The change hides live and finalized thinking text while retaining the indicator and expansion behavior. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because one message-flow test should also verify that the spinner is visible rather than only checking that text is absent.

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In `@apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/pythinker-tui-message-flow.test.ts`:
- Around line 5894-5895: Update the collapsed live-thinking test assertion
around renderTranscript to capture the stripped transcript once, first verify
that the expected spinner header is present, then verify it does not contain
“visible reasoning”; retain the existing rendering setup and avoid relying on
the negative-only assertion.

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• .changeset/thinking-indicator-only.md
• apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/messages/thinking.ts
• apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/components/messages/thinking.test.ts
• apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/pythinker-tui-message-flow.test.ts