# Reading the transcript

The transcript above the composer is where a turn plays out — the reply, the tools the agent ran, its reasoning, the artifacts it produced, and any sub-agents it delegated to.

## Turns and phases

Each exchange is a turn: your message, then the agent’s work. A live turn animates through named phases — processing, thinking, working, responding — and a turn can re-enter thinking or working between steps as it chains.

## Tool cards, reasoning, and artifacts

- Tool cards — each tool call (read a file, run a command, search the web) renders as a card you can expand to see inputs and results.
- Reasoning — the model’s thinking appears as a distinct reasoning block, separate from its answer prose.
- Artifacts — generated files, diagrams, tables, and the like stream in as artifact cards, often mirrored on the Stage.

## Swarm: when a crew delegates

When the lead hands work to its members, the transcript shows a swarm — each sub-agent’s tools nest under it, running under the session’s autonomy mode. It’s how a crew reads on screen: several specialists working in parallel under one turn.

## Agentic vs verbose view

The transcript has two views. Agentic (the default) is a condensed narrative — the gist of what happened, tools folded down. Verbose shows the full reasoning and every tool call. Switch when you want to follow exactly what the agent did, then switch back to keep the feed readable.

> A tool needing approval always showsEven in the condensed agentic view, a tool call waiting on your approval shows its full card — it’s interactive, so it can’t be hidden. See Approving actions.