fix: quiet logs progress output (#1472) (thanks @czekaj)

The progress spinner was being shown for each gateway RPC call during
log tailing, causing repeated spinner frames (◇ │) to appear every
polling interval.

Add a `progress` option to `callGatewayFromCli` and disable the spinner
during follow mode polling to keep output clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.clawd.bot
 
 ### Fixes
 - BlueBubbles: stop typing indicator on idle/no-reply. (#1439) Thanks @Nicell.
+- CLI: suppress progress spinner noise for `logs --follow` and JSON output. (#1472) Thanks @czekaj.
 - Auto-reply: only report a model switch when session state is available. (#1465) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
 - Control UI: resolve local avatar URLs with basePath across injection + identity RPC. (#1457) Thanks @dlauer.
 - Agents: surface concrete API error details instead of generic AI service errors.

src/cli/gateway-rpc.ts

@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ export async function callGatewayFromCli(
   method: string,
   opts: GatewayRpcOpts,
   params?: unknown,
-  extra?: { expectFinal?: boolean },
+  extra?: { expectFinal?: boolean; progress?: boolean },
 ) {
+  const showProgress = (extra?.progress ?? true) && opts.json !== true;
   return await withProgress(
     {
       label: `Gateway ${method}`,
       indeterminate: true,
-      enabled: opts.json !== true,
+      enabled: showProgress,
     },
     async () =>
       await callGateway({

src/cli/logs-cli.test.ts

@@ -82,4 +82,21 @@ describe("logs cli", () => {
 
     expect(stderrWrites.join("")).toContain("output stdout closed");
   });
+
+  it("disables progress spinner in json mode", async () => {
+    callGatewayFromCli.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      file: "/tmp/clawdbot.log",
+      lines: [],
+    });
+
+    const { registerLogsCli } = await import("./logs-cli.js");
+    const program = new Command();
+    program.exitOverride();
+    registerLogsCli(program);
+
+    await program.parseAsync(["logs", "--json"], { from: "user" });
+
+    const extra = callGatewayFromCli.mock.calls[0]?.[3];
+    expect(extra).toEqual({ progress: false });
+  });
 });

src/cli/logs-cli.ts

@@ -41,14 +41,16 @@ function parsePositiveInt(value: string | undefined, fallback: number): number {
 async function fetchLogs(
   opts: LogsCliOptions,
   cursor: number | undefined,
+  showProgress: boolean,
 ): Promise<LogsTailPayload> {
   const limit = parsePositiveInt(opts.limit, 200);
   const maxBytes = parsePositiveInt(opts.maxBytes, 250_000);
-  const payload = await callGatewayFromCli("logs.tail", opts, {
-    cursor,
-    limit,
-    maxBytes,
-  });
+  const payload = await callGatewayFromCli(
+    "logs.tail",
+    opts,
+    { cursor, limit, maxBytes },
+    { progress: showProgress },
+  );
   if (!payload || typeof payload !== "object") {
     throw new Error("Unexpected logs.tail response");
   }
@@ -194,8 +196,10 @@ export function registerLogsCli(program: Command) {
 
     while (true) {
       let payload: LogsTailPayload;
+      // Show progress spinner only on first fetch for non-follow, non-JSON output.
+      const showProgress = first && !opts.follow && !jsonMode;
       try {
-        payload = await fetchLogs(opts, cursor);
+        payload = await fetchLogs(opts, cursor, showProgress);
       } catch (err) {
         emitGatewayError(err, opts, jsonMode ? "json" : "text", rich, emitJsonLine, errorLine);
         process.exit(1);