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[FEATURE]: show the turn's model variant in message footers #53846
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Assistant message footers name the model but not the variant the turn ran with: ▣ Build · Claude Opus 4.5 · 45.5s. A turn on high reasoning effort reads exactly like one on the default, so after switching variants there is no way to tell which effort produced which answer. The variant is already stored on every assistant message, and the prompt line shows the currently selected one, but nothing shows it for past turns. #40412 reported the same gap and was closed as stale.
Proposal: a footer_variant setting in tui.json, default false (today's footer, unchanged). With true, every assistant message footer shows the variant stored on that message after the model:
▣ Build · Claude Opus 4.5 · high · 45.5s
Turns that ran without a variant look the same as today.
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opencode-agent commentedon Oct 8, 2026
Thanks for the request! To restate it: you'd like a
footer_variantoption intui.json(off by default) that shows the reasoning variant each assistant turn ran with in its message footer, e.g.Build · Claude Opus 4.5 · high · 45.5s. That way, turns at different efforts can be told apart after you switch variants.Maintainers will consider it. This can't be done as a plugin right now, because the TUI plugin API doesn't expose a slot for message footers.
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Tarquinen commentedon Oct 20, 2026
We're tracking this in #47766, so I'm closing this as a duplicate. Please follow that issue for updates.
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