openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Feature]: /progress command to toggle tool-call progress in streaming preview [1 pull requests]

Feature Request

Motivation

When the agent makes multiple tool calls, progress lines are edited into the streaming preview message in real time. This is great for debugging, but on mobile (especially Telegram), the intermediate edits plus the final cleanup (intermediate previews get deleteMessage'd before the final answer) cause visual jitter. Sometimes I want to see tool progress, sometimes I want a clean text-only stream.

Currently toggling streaming.preview.toolProgress requires editing openclaw.json and restarting the Gateway. There's no quick way to flip this per conversation.

Proposed Solution

Add a /progress native command to toggle tool-call progress visibility per-session:

/progress        → show current state (on/off)
/progress on     → show tool progress in streaming preview
/progress off    → hide tool progress, stream answer text only

This should be a session-level override (like /think), not a config change — no Gateway restart, scoped to the current conversation/session.

Why session-level

• Different contexts need different visibility (debugging vs casual chat)
• Per-conversation, not global — should not affect other sessions
• Instant toggle, no restart

UX reference

Similar to how /think works on Telegram: inline keyboard showing current state with toggle buttons. The current session override should override the configured streaming.preview.toolProgress for that session only.

Related

• streaming.preview.toolProgress config field exists but has no chat-command shortcut
• #73795 — toolProgress config stripped from channels without streaming.mode
• #79804 — tool/status messages leak when streaming/tool progress is disabled
• #77072 (closed) — Telegram partial streaming surfaces excessive transient tool/exec progress bubbles in DM