Tool-call cards and grouping, with the state a result never arrived in

P1b (docs/RUST.md). `transcript-ui/src/tool.rs` draws a card per tool
call and a group per run: collapsed, a card is its name and the one-line
summary `parse_tool_input` derives; open, it is the description, the
input (highlighted, on the verbatim surface) and the output, capped with
a "Show all N lines". A run is one surface with a heading and a chevron
bar at its foot, so it closes from either end.

Three things worth knowing.

**A collapsed card lays out its summary line and nothing else.** The
fixture's tool outputs are tens of kilobytes and a collapsed card never
builds a widget for one -- `collapsed_cards_shape_only_their_summary_
lines` opens a three-card group over 88 kB of output each and asserts the
text-shape count equals the same group's over three bytes (17 either
way; 17 against 20 when the discipline is deliberately broken, so the
test is real).

**A result arriving replaces one card.** `ToolRow::apply_calls` is the
group's half of `RowBlocks::apply_delta`'s rule, and `build_row` now
hands back one `TailRow` -- blocks for a message, cards for a run --
rather than two mechanisms chosen at each call site.

**Every tap is a tap**: `GestureOutcome::Tapped` out of the `DragArbiter`
`Selection` already owns, so a drag that started on a card scrolls the
transcript instead of opening it.

Three defects found by looking at the render, all recorded with their
repro in docs/IRIS_TODO.md: a `Span` of padded children inside another
`Span` places them a slot out of step (worked around by building the
group as one span, which costs the 4dp inset); `scrollable_on(Axis::X)`
on a non-editable text draws nothing, so a card's command is clipped
rather than pannable; and `NotoSans-Regular` has no U+25B8/25BE/25B4 at
all, so the expander mark is set in the monospace face.

Screenshots: docs/bench/p1b-2026-09-06/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -5,6 +5,45 @@ they can be judged and reversed later. Detail lives in RUST.md (and IRIS.md
for iris API changes); this file is only the summary. Newest first. Items
marked **DEFERRED** are ones the agent chose not to decide alone.
## 2026-09-06 (how a tool call looks, P1b)
- **A card that never got a result says "no result", in yellow, and it is
a state Compose cannot say.** A call that finished having printed
nothing and a call whose turn was interrupted before anything came back
both leave an empty output. Compose draws both as an ordinary finished
call, which reads as a fact somebody established. There are five states
now, each with a word and a colour: nothing at all for a call that
worked, "running" (grey), "your turn" (peach, Compose's own wording and
colour), "failed" (red), "no result" (yellow).
- **A failed call is drawn as failed, which needed a field on the wire.**
`is_error` is on the CLI's `tool_result` and was being dropped; the
server now carries it to the phone. Reversible, but the alternative is a
card that says a call succeeded because it cannot tell.
- **A group's cards do not each carry their own surface.** Compose gives
each card a fill and squares the corners where it faces a neighbour, so
a run reads as one object broken into parts. iris has no per-corner
radius, and -- more to the point -- a group built the way Compose builds
it hit a framework layout defect that drew every card's text a card
below its own box. So a group is one surface with its cards on it,
separated by a small gap, and the 4dp inset Compose holds them off the
edge by is gone. Worth revisiting once the layout defect is fixed
(docs/IRIS_TODO.md).
- **A long tool output is capped at 80 lines or 4 kB with a "Show all N
lines".** Compose draws the whole thing, and gets away with it because
its `Text` inside a `LazyColumn` lays out lazily; here the output is one
text widget and shaping a hundred kilobytes of it costs what the file
editor's 32 kB limit was measured against. If iris's text gets cheaper,
this is the number to move.
- **A card's command is clipped, not pannable, and its summary line is
clipped rather than ellipsised.** Both are framework gaps rather than
choices (`scrollable_on` on a non-editable text draws nothing; there is
no overflow ellipsis), and both are worse than Compose today. Named here
because they are visible.
## 2026-09-06 (how a markdown block looks, P1a)
- **A table is drawn as padded monospace columns, not as a grid.** Your