User types "android" into your search box. That's 7 API calls if you wired it the way I did the first time. A few months later I shipped a pagination bug where every infinite-scroll fetch flashed a full-screen loader for half a second. And then there was the Settings screen that needed to refresh the Dashboard when the user changed theme — but Settings couldn't import Dashboard without a circular
The previous two posts covered how events flow from the SDK to the UI. This post focuses on visualizing one specific type of event: tool calls. Tool invocations are the most frequent operations in an Agent application. A typical task might call tools twenty or thirty times—reading files, writing files, executing commands, searching code. If every tool call renders as the same gray block, it's hard
Post 1 covered how AgentBridge converts the SDK's AsyncStream<SDKMessage> into [AgentEvent]. This post looks at what [AgentEvent] becomes — how TimelineView renders 18 event types, handles scroll behavior, and stays smooth when the event count gets large. TimelineView is the main body of the workspace, filling all the space between the sidebar and the input box. Its view hierarchy is shallow: Time