diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/ToolExecutionBlock.tsx b/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/ToolExecutionBlock.tsx
index 4dd23087c9..097b21cda8 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/ToolExecutionBlock.tsx
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/ToolExecutionBlock.tsx
@@ -608,6 +608,19 @@ export const PendingToolBlock: Component<PendingToolBlockProps> = (props) => {
     if (!preview || summary.startsWith('$ ') || preview === summary) return '';
     return preview;
   });
+  // While the model is still streaming the tool arguments the raw input is
+  // partial JSON that no parser can summarize yet. Show its live tail (the
+  // OpenCode mutable tool-part pattern: you watch the call being written)
+  // instead of leaving only the generic placeholder.
+  const formingArgsPreview = createMemo(() => {
+    if (commandPreview()) return '';
+    if (!isPlaceholderToolInputSummary(parsedInputSummary())) return '';
+    const raw = (props.tool.rawInput || '').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
+    if (!raw) return '';
+    const maxChars = 120;
+    if (raw.length <= maxChars) return raw;
+    return '…' + raw.slice(raw.length - maxChars);
+  });
   const status = createMemo(() => props.tool.status || 'pending');
   const [now, setNow] = createSignal(Date.now());
   const statusLabel = createMemo(() => {
@@ -696,6 +709,14 @@ export const PendingToolBlock: Component<PendingToolBlockProps> = (props) => {
             <Show when={commandPreview()}>
               <ToolCommandPreview preview={commandPreview()} />
             </Show>
+            <Show when={formingArgsPreview()}>
+              <div
+                class="mt-1 min-w-0 font-mono text-[10px] leading-snug text-muted"
+                aria-label="Tool input streaming"
+              >
+                <span class="block truncate">{formingArgsPreview()}</span>
+              </div>
+            </Show>
           </div>
         </div>
 
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/__tests__/ToolExecutionBlock.test.tsx b/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/__tests__/ToolExecutionBlock.test.tsx
index 8feac4ba37..e137c4044a 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/__tests__/ToolExecutionBlock.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/components/AI/Chat/__tests__/ToolExecutionBlock.test.tsx
@@ -818,6 +818,53 @@ describe('PendingToolBlock', () => {
     expect(screen.getByText('df -h')).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
+  it('streams forming raw args into the pending row while they are unparsable', () => {
+    // Mid-stream tool args are partial JSON: no summary or command preview
+    // can parse yet, so the row must show the live raw tail instead of only
+    // the generic placeholder.
+    render(() => (
+      <PendingToolBlock
+        tool={makePending({
+          name: 'pulse_query',
+          input: '',
+          rawInput: '{"action":"topology","summary_on',
+          status: 'pending',
+        })}
+      />
+    ));
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText('Tool input streaming')).toHaveTextContent(
+      '{"action":"topology","summary_on',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('shows the tail of long forming raw args', () => {
+    const head = '{"action":"exec","command":"';
+    const tail = 'x'.repeat(130);
+    render(() => (
+      <PendingToolBlock
+        tool={makePending({ name: 'pulse_query', input: '', rawInput: head + tail, status: 'pending' })}
+      />
+    ));
+    const preview = screen.getByLabelText('Tool input streaming');
+    expect(preview.textContent).toMatch(/^…/);
+    expect(preview.textContent).toContain('xxx');
+    expect(preview.textContent!.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(121);
+  });
+
+  it('does not show the forming-args preview once the input parses to a summary', () => {
+    render(() => (
+      <PendingToolBlock
+        tool={makePending({
+          name: 'pulse_query',
+          input: '{"action":"topology"}',
+          rawInput: '{"action":"topology"}',
+          status: 'running',
+        })}
+      />
+    ));
+    expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Tool input streaming')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
   it('truncates input summaries longer than 28 chars', () => {
     const longInput = 'B'.repeat(55);
     render(() => <PendingToolBlock tool={makePending({ input: longInput })} />);