UI PR: making tool activity feel more natural in chat
Am I the only one who felt that showing raw tool commands in chat, like `search_web` or `fetch_url`, feels a bit unnatural?
In my company, most users found it too developer-facing and not very intuitive, especially during web search / browsing flows...
So I opened a PR focused on this UI detail:
- human-friendly activity labels instead of raw internal tool names
- clearer grouped activity summaries
- better source visibility with favicons and compact `+N` indicators
- technical tool names still available in expanded details for transparency/debugging
The goal is not to hide what the assistant is doing, but to present it in a way that feels more natural for end users.
And here’s the PR if you want to take a look:
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/23157
(Developed with help from Claude Opus 4.6, then manually reviewed and tested.)
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If you have any suggestions, ideas, fixes, or other ways I can contribute, feel free to reach out. Have a great day! :)
Posted Mar 27, 2026, 8:07 PM UTC