diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/AIJobs/AIJobService.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/AIJobs/AIJobService.cs
index 60589a80..de20d7ec 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/AIJobs/AIJobService.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/AIJobs/AIJobService.cs	
@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ public sealed class AIJobService(SettingsManager settingsManager, MessageBus mes
 
         public DateTimeOffset LastCheckpoint { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// When the chat was last told that something happened which was not a streamed chunk.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// Kept on the job rather than in the loop which streams, because the tool calling reports
+        /// from outside that loop: it runs inside the provider call the loop is waiting on.
+        /// </remarks>
+        public DateTimeOffset LastActivityNotification { get; set; }
+
         public bool IsCompletionStarted { get; set; }
 
         public readonly Lock SyncRoot = new();
@@ -79,6 +88,44 @@ public sealed class AIJobService(SettingsManager settingsManager, MessageBus mes
         return this.jobs.TryGetValue(jobId, out var job) ? job.ChatGenerationRequest?.ChatThread : null;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Says that the answer of a chat has moved without a chunk having arrived.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// A model which calls tools asks several times before it says anything, and while it does,
+    /// this service sits in the provider call and hands nothing to the screen. But the request is
+    /// growing the whole time -- every tool result travels with the next round -- and the chat is
+    /// what recounts the tokens when it renders. Without this, the only thing which would ever ask
+    /// again is the ten-second heartbeat of the token tracker.
+    ///
+    /// Throttled like the streamed chunks, and by the same setting: a round which calls five tools
+    /// in a row must not turn into five renders of the whole chat when somebody asked us to go easy
+    /// on their battery.
+    ///
+    /// A chat without a running job is not an error. The same tool calling loop runs for the
+    /// assistants, which have no job behind them and no token count to update.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="chatId">The chat whose answer moved.</param>
+    public async Task NotifyChatActivityAsync(Guid chatId)
+    {
+        if (!this.activeChatJobsByChatId.TryGetValue(chatId, out var jobId))
+            return;
+
+        if (!this.jobs.TryGetValue(jobId, out var job))
+            return;
+
+        lock (job.SyncRoot)
+        {
+            var now = DateTimeOffset.Now;
+            if (settingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.IsSavingEnergy && now - job.LastActivityNotification < STREAMING_EVENT_MIN_TIME)
+                return;
+
+            job.LastActivityNotification = now;
+        }
+
+        await this.NotifyChangedAsync(job);
+    }
+
     public async Task<AIJobSnapshot?> TryStartChatGenerationAsync(ChatGenerationRequest request)
     {
         if (this.activeChatJobsByChatId.TryGetValue(request.ChatThread.ChatId, out var existingJobId))
diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/ToolCallingSystem/Harness/ToolCallingLoopContext.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/ToolCallingSystem/Harness/ToolCallingLoopContext.cs
index 70d1292c..79b4ee9b 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/ToolCallingSystem/Harness/ToolCallingLoopContext.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/ToolCallingSystem/Harness/ToolCallingLoopContext.cs	
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using AIStudio.Chat;
 using AIStudio.Provider;
+using AIStudio.Tools.AIJobs;
 
 namespace AIStudio.Tools.ToolCallingSystem.Harness;
 
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoopContext
             return;
 
         this.CurrentAssistantContent.ToolInvocations.Add(trace);
-        await this.CurrentAssistantContent.StreamingEvent();
+        await this.AnnounceAsync(this.CurrentAssistantContent);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoopContext
             return;
 
         this.CurrentAssistantContent.PendingToolConversation = [..adapter.RecordedRequestTexts];
-        await this.CurrentAssistantContent.StreamingEvent();
+        await this.AnnounceAsync(this.CurrentAssistantContent);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoopContext
             ToolNames = [.. toolNames],
         };
 
-        await this.CurrentAssistantContent.StreamingEvent();
+        await this.AnnounceAsync(this.CurrentAssistantContent);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -106,6 +107,32 @@ public sealed class ToolCallingLoopContext
             return;
 
         this.CurrentAssistantContent.ToolRuntimeStatus = new();
-        await this.CurrentAssistantContent.StreamingEvent();
+        await this.AnnounceAsync(this.CurrentAssistantContent);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Says that something about the running answer has changed.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Two receivers, because the screen is built from two of them. The content's own event
+    /// renders the message block, which is what shows a running tool and the calls it has made.
+    /// The job service renders the chat around it, and that is what recounts the tokens -- which
+    /// nothing else would ask for during a tool run: the chat hears about progress one streamed
+    /// chunk at a time, and a tool run produces none until it is over.<br/><br/>
+    /// One method rather than two calls at each of the four places above, because the second of
+    /// them is the one which is easy to forget.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="content">The assistant message which changed.</param>
+    private async Task AnnounceAsync(ContentText content)
+    {
+        await content.StreamingEvent();
+
+        //
+        // Asked for here rather than taken as a dependency: the same loop runs for the assistants,
+        // where there is no job to tell and nothing which counts tokens.
+        //
+        var jobService = Program.SERVICE_PROVIDER.GetService<AIJobService>();
+        if (jobService is not null)
+            await jobService.NotifyChatActivityAsync(this.ChatThread.ChatId);
     }
 }
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