Community reports of GPT 'infinitely thinking' are usually a slow or
overloaded provider plus silent retry machinery: the CLI/TUI/Desktop
spinner shows a generic 'cogitating...' verb for the whole wait and the
gateway heartbeat says only 'Working — N min'.
Add AIAgent._emit_wait_notice(): rewrites the live spinner/status line
(thinking_callback → CLI prompt_toolkit widget, thinking.delta → TUI +
Desktop) and updates the activity tracker (included in the gateway's
'⏳ Working — N min' heartbeat). Wired at the four wait points:
- non-streaming wait loop: after 30s with no response, the line becomes
'⏳ waiting on <model> — Ns with no response yet (provider may be slow
or overloaded; auto-reconnect at Ns)'
- streaming wait loop: same explanation after 30s with no chunks,
including the long-thinking case
- TTFB / stale-stream kills: '⚠ no response from provider in Ns —
reconnecting...'
- Codex continuation retries: '↻ model returned reasoning with no final
answer — asking it to continue (n/3)' instead of silence
Notices are fail-open (display errors never break the wait loop) and
gateway sessions without a display callback still get the improved
activity description.
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