diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md b/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md
index b2a40d8a60..e85b9e39da 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md
@@ -307,6 +307,11 @@ Chat Session specific settings
   * tables, fenced code blocks, blockquotes
   * User given control to enable markdown implicitly at a session level, or explicitly set wrt individual msgs.
 * Rename fetch_web_url_raw to fetch_url_raw, avoids confusion and matchs semantic of access to local and web.
+* Now external_ai specific special chat session's and inturn external ai tool call's ai live response stream
+  is visible in the chat session which triggered external ai, only till one gets respose or the tool call times
+  out. In turn if the tool call times out, one can send the timeout message as the response to the tool call
+  or what ever they see fit. Parallely, they can always look into the external ai specific special chat session
+  tab to see the ai response live stream and the progress wrt the tool call that timed out.
 
 
 ## ToDo
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
index 9594cf52cb..1c782b60f4 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
@@ -537,6 +537,8 @@ class ELDivStream {
         });
         elDiv.appendChild(elDivData)
         this.divData = elDivData
+        /** @type {string | undefined} */
+        this.styleDisplay = ui.ss_get(0, '.chat-message', 'display')
     }
 
     /**
@@ -545,6 +547,9 @@ class ELDivStream {
     show() {
         this.div.hidden = false
         this.div.style.visibility = "visible"
+        if (this.styleDisplay) {
+            this.div.style.display = this.styleDisplay
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -556,6 +561,7 @@ class ELDivStream {
         this.divData.replaceChildren()
         this.div.hidden = true
         this.div.style.visibility = "collapse"
+        this.div.style.display = "none"
     }
 
 }
@@ -1621,6 +1627,7 @@ class MultiChatUI {
             this.elDivChat.replaceChildren();
             this.ui_userinput_reset()
             this.elDivStreams[chatId]?.clear()
+            this.elDivStreams[AI_TC_SESSIONNAME].clear()
         }
         if (bShowOwnDivStream) {
             this.elDivStreams[chatId]?.show()
@@ -1862,6 +1869,9 @@ class MultiChatUI {
         this.elPopoverChatMsg.addEventListener('beforetoggle', (tev)=>{
             let chatSession = this.simpleChats[this.curChatId]
             let index = chatSession.get_chatmessage_index(this.uniqIdChatMsgPO)
+            if (index == -1) {
+                return
+            }
             let chat = chatSession.xchat[index]
             if (chat.ns.has_content()) {
                 this.elPopoverChatMsgFormatSelect.value = chat.textFormat
@@ -2021,6 +2031,7 @@ class MultiChatUI {
             this.chatmsg_addsmart_uishow(chat.chatId, new ChatMessageEx(NSChatMessage.new_tool_response(Roles.ToolTemp, toolCallId, toolname, toolResult)))
         } else {
             this.timers.toolcallResponseTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+                this.elDivStreams[AI_TC_SESSIONNAME].clear()
                 this.me.toolsMgr.toolcallpending_found_cleared(chat.chatId, toolCallId, 'MCUI:HandleToolRun:TimeOut')
                 this.chatmsg_addsmart_uishow(chat.chatId, new ChatMessageEx(NSChatMessage.new_tool_response(Roles.ToolTemp, toolCallId, toolname, `Tool/Function call ${toolname} taking too much time, aborting...`)))
             }, chat.cfg.tools.toolCallResponseTimeoutMS)
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/ui.mjs b/tools/server/public_simplechat/ui.mjs
index 13eefb4976..69308ab7fa 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/ui.mjs
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/ui.mjs
@@ -374,3 +374,24 @@ export function remove_els(sSelectorsTemplate) {
         el?.remove()
     }
 }
+
+
+/**
+ * Get value of specified property belonging to specified css rule and stylesheet.
+ * @param {number} ssIndex
+ * @param {string} selectorText
+ * @param {string} property
+ */
+export function ss_get(ssIndex, selectorText, property) {
+    for (const rule of document.styleSheets[ssIndex].cssRules) {
+        if (rule.constructor.name == "CSSStyleRule") {
+            let sr = /** @type {CSSStyleRule} */(rule)
+            if (sr.selectorText.trim() != selectorText) {
+                continue
+            }
+            // @ts-ignore
+            return sr.style[property]
+        }
+    }
+    return undefined
+}