Make Crush more "verbose"?

[IngwiePhoenix]

Basically, I finally managed to set up Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B with a reasonable speed - but while crush runs, it just shows "Writing ..." in the logs - and I just want to see what it is actually doing, since local speeds aren't super fast. I do see activity via the monitoring, obviously, but I would like to see the details happening in Crush.

How do I, by default, make it verbose?

Thanks!

(btw, using this here: https://github.com/alekk89/llama-cpp-windows-manager - very good pairing with model auto discovery.)

[Thominho]

Crush already logs the detail you are after — it just does not put it in the TUI. It goes to a file.

Turn it on permanently

You asked for "by default", so put it in your crushrc rather than passing a flag each time:

# crushrc
option debug true
option debug-lsp true

Drop debug-lsp if you do not care about language-server chatter — with a local model it will be noise you have to scroll past.

Equivalent one-off: crush --debug, or crush -d.

Watch it while Crush runs

Logs land in ./.crush/logs/crush.log, relative to the project. Keep a second terminal open next to Crush:

crush logs --follow

That is the setup that answers "what is it actually doing right now" while the TUI sits on Writing…. Also available:

crush logs              # last 1000 lines
crush logs --tail 500   # last 500

Short forms -f and -t work too.

If you ever drive it non-interactively

crush run has its own switch that prints logs straight to the terminal instead of a file:

crush run -v "your prompt"

That one is specific to run — it does not apply to the interactive TUI, which is why --debug plus crush logs -f is the combination for your case.

---

Worth knowing given the local-model angle: with debug on, the log includes request and response bodies. Useful when you are trying to work out whether Qwen is thinking, streaming, or stuck mid-tool-call — but it also means prompts and file contents land in crush.log in plaintext. Fine locally, just do not paste that file into an issue unedited.

[IngwiePhoenix]

Thanks, but unfortunately this doesn't solve something like this:

Meanwhile, the logs only repeatedly print the same message:

2026/08/20 14:26:59 INFO Skill turn summary active_total=3 component=skills loaded_this_turn=<nil> loaded_total=1 prompt_len=91 session_id=2ec3e5fd-a8d2-4bec-a6b4-f9f2e52ef7b0 source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/coordinator.go:1562"
2026/08/20 14:28:50 INFO Initializing MCP clients source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/tools/mcp/init.go:294"
2026/08/20 14:28:50 WARN Ripgrep (rg) not found in $PATH. Some grep features might be limited or slower. source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/tools/rg.go:22"
2026/08/20 14:47:12 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:49:03 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:49:25 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:49:33 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:49:54 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:49:58 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:50:19 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:50:23 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:50:37 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:51:31 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:51:40 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:51:44 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:51:59 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:52:06 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 14:52:51 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:09:38 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:10:04 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:10:24 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:10:41 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:11:00 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:11:11 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:12:15 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:21:17 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:21:35 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:21:49 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:22:19 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:22:31 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:23:08 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:23:31 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:23:37 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:23:48 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:24:13 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:24:32 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:24:52 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:25:08 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:25:12 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:25:53 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:26:15 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:26:25 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:27:30 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:29:43 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:30:00 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:30:15 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:30:40 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:31:03 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:32:09 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:34:25 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"
2026/08/20 15:35:28 INFO ModelProvider called model=lmstudio-community-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-gguf-qwen3.6-35b-a3b-q4_k_m-3310e82a provider=llamacpp source="C:/Users/Ingwie Phoenix/go/pkg/mod/github.com/charmbracelet/crush@v0.90.0/internal/agent/agent.go:945"

So, it certainly is going the right direction - but I can not see what exactly is holding the process back...

[Thominho]

That log actually tells us something useful: debug is not on yet.

Every line you pasted is INFO. In internal/log/log.go the level is chosen as

level := slog.LevelInfo
if <debug> {
    level = slog.LevelDebug
}

With debug active you would see DEBUG lines mixed in. You do not, so the setting never took effect — the crushrc is not being found, or is not somewhere Crush looks.

Confirm it in ten seconds

Skip the config file and pass the flag:

crush -d

If DEBUG lines then show up in crush logs -f, the mechanism is fine and it is purely about where the file lives.

Where the file has to be

A global crushrc is only picked up as a sibling of crush.json — same directory, nothing else counts. A project-level crushrc or .crushrc in the working directory is read too, with the dotted name winning if both exist.

Quickest way to sidestep path questions on Windows: put crushrc in the root of the project you launch Crush from.

The JSON equivalent, if you prefer, in crush.json:

{
  "options": {
    "debug": true
  }
}

Do not keep both a crush.json and a crushrc in the same directory — Crush warns about it and lets the crushrc win.

What you actually get from it

This is the part that answers your question. internal/log/http.go gates request and response logging behind

if slog.Default().Enabled(req.Context(), slog.LevelDebug) {

so once DEBUG is live you get the full HTTP exchange with llama.cpp, bodies included. That is where those 17-minute gaps become readable: whether tokens are trickling back, whether it is parked on a tool call, or whether a request never got a response.

The ModelProvider called lines you have now only record that a request started, which is why they all look identical.

Separately, from your log

WARN Ripgrep (rg) not found in $PATH

Installing rg speeds up the agent's searches. Not your bottleneck behind a 35B model, but it is free.

---

Caveat: I checked this against main, and your paths show crush@v0.90.0. -d and crush logs have been around a while, but if option debug true still does nothing once the file is in the right place, the shell-config loader may simply postdate your build — in which case use the JSON form.