Verbosity

Verbosity controls how much of the agent's tool activity appears in a thread. Lower verbosity keeps threads readable; higher verbosity shows everything for debugging.

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The three levels

   tools_and_text      ──▶  shows everything: edits, reads, searches, bash, status
   text_and_essential  ──▶  text + essential tools (edits, MCP); hides reads  (default)
   text_only          ──▶  only the agent's text replies; hides all tools

Level	What it shows
Tools and text (`tools_and_text`)	All output, including every tool execution and status message
Text and essential tools (`text_and_essential_tools`)	Text plus essential tools (file edits, custom MCP tools). Hides reads and searches. Default.
Text only (`text_only`)	Only text responses. Hides all tools and status messages.

The default, text and essential tools, is tuned so you see the edits and meaningful actions without the noise of every file read and grep.

Setting verbosity

Run /verbosity in a channel and pick a level from the dropdown. The setting is a per-channel override of the global default and applies immediately, including to sessions that are already running.

Verbosity is stored per channel, so different projects can have different levels. The reply shows whether the current value is a channel override or the global default.

What "essential tools" means

At the default level, Kimaki shows tool parts that matter for following the work:

File edits and writes (prefixed ┣ or ◼︎ in the thread).
Custom MCP tools you've configured.

It hides low-signal parts like file reads, searches, thinking, and non-side-effect bash. Bump to tools and text when you want to see exactly what the agent is doing step by step.