Problem

Gateway users on Telegram, Discord, Signal, and other messaging platforms currently receive intermediate tool progress messages (e.g., "🔍 search_files: ...", "💻 terminal: ...") by default during every task. These clutter the chat and are mostly useful only for debugging — most users just want the final response.

A user asked:

How do I get Hermes to just reply when it's done with a task and not send me all the "search" and "terminal", etc. operations performing?

The answer today is to set display.tool_progress: off in config.yaml, but this shouldn't require manual configuration — silence is the sensible default for messaging platforms.

Proposed Change

Change the gateway tool_progress default from "all" to "off".

• Gateway default: "off" — messaging users only see the final response
• CLI default: "all" (unchanged) — CLI users see the spinner/activity feed inline

Users who want tool progress on their messaging platforms can opt in:

display:
  tool_progress: all  # or "new" / "verbose"

Or per-platform:

display:
  tool_progress_overrides:
    telegram: all

The /verbose command still cycles through modes as before.

Impact

• New gateway users — quiet by default, cleaner chat experience
• Existing users with explicit config — no change, their tool_progress setting is respected
• CLI users — no change