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fix: print the running tool once, not twice (#17)

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Arguments are compared with their keys sorted, because models are not consistent about key order and a call that differs only by key order is still the same call.
**What Lam is doing is visible while it is doing it, even with tool calls hidden.** `Show Tool Calls` governs the finished transcript, where a list of names adds little. The live activity line is separate and always shown, because during a turn the difference between working and circling is the entire question: `_Reading a page…_` for a first call, and `_Reading a page · the same call again (2)_` once it has come round. Hiding that would leave the user watching a spinner they cannot interpret, which is the situation the repeat guard exists to fix. A call that failed, or that was refused for repeating, is also listed in the transcript even with tool calls hidden: those are the two cases where hiding the line leaves an answer the user cannot account for.
**What Lam is doing is visible while it is doing it, even with tool calls hidden.** `Show Tool Calls` governs the finished transcript, where a list of names adds little. The live activity line is separate and always shown, because during a turn the difference between working and circling is the entire question: `_Reading a page…_` for a first call, and `_Reading a page · the same call again (2)…_` once it has come round. Hiding that would leave the user watching a spinner they cannot interpret, which is the situation the repeat guard exists to fix. A call that failed, or that was refused for repeating, is also listed in the transcript even with tool calls hidden: those are the two cases where hiding the line leaves an answer the user cannot account for.
**That line is rendered in exactly one place, on the live message.** It is not a view-level note above the transcript, and it is not a substitute for missing text either: it is shown whether or not tokens have arrived, because a tool that starts mid-answer would otherwise be invisible for the rest of the turn. The first version had both, a note in the view and the placeholder in the transcript, and a tool running before any text arrived printed "Reading a page" twice, one line above the other. The cursor rides on whichever line is written last, so it always trails the text actually arriving.
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