diff --git a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.spec.ts b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.spec.ts
index 7f7b8ad..2ac5055 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.spec.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,38 @@ describe('execution viewer runtime values', () => {
     })).toEqual({ approve: 'Candidate evidence' });
   });
 
+  it('keeps the numbers an event recorded readable, so a warning can be opened instead of guessed at', () => {
+    // The characters-over-budget in a pruning warning only lived in the API until now.
+    const [event] = buildVisibleExecutionLogs([{
+      id: 'event-1',
+      timestamp: 1,
+      type: 'LLM_CONTEXT_PRUNED',
+      message: 'Still 6332 character(s) over budget',
+      details: { iteration: 4, totalCharsAfter: 66332, budgetChars: 60000 }
+    }]);
+
+    expect(event.detailsText).toContain('"totalCharsAfter": 66332');
+    expect(event.detailsText).toContain('"budgetChars": 60000');
+  });
+
+  it('offers nothing to open when an event carries no details', () => {
+    // A button that opens an empty box is worse than no button.
+    const [noDetails] = buildVisibleExecutionLogs([{ id: 'a', timestamp: 1, type: 'STEP_STARTED' }]);
+    const [emptyDetails] = buildVisibleExecutionLogs([{ id: 'b', timestamp: 1, type: 'STEP_STARTED', details: {} }]);
+
+    expect(noDetails.detailsText).toBeNull();
+    expect(emptyDetails.detailsText).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('still shows something for a payload that will not serialise', () => {
+    const cyclic: Record<string, unknown> = { tool: 'read_file' };
+    cyclic['self'] = cyclic;
+
+    const [event] = buildVisibleExecutionLogs([{ id: 'c', timestamp: 1, type: 'MCP_TOOL_CALL', details: cyclic }]);
+
+    expect(event.detailsText).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
   it('surfaces inner subflow identifiers from bias experiment events', () => {
     const [event] = buildVisibleExecutionLogs([{
       id: 'event-1',
diff --git a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.ts b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.ts
index 394e04f..45fe4a0 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/execution-viewer.utils.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ export type ExecutionIntermediateInputGroup = {
 
 export type ExecutionLogEntryView = ExecutionEventLogEntry & {
   messageText: string;
+  /** The event's own details, formatted for reading, or null when it carries none worth opening. */
+  detailsText: string | null;
   levelText: string;
   innerExecutionId: string | null;
   innerNodeId: string | null;
@@ -245,6 +247,7 @@ export function buildVisibleExecutionLogs(logs: ExecutionEventLogEntry[]): Execu
       return {
         ...entry,
         messageText: String(entry.message ?? '').trim() || fallbackExecutionLogMessage(entry),
+        detailsText: formatExecutionLogDetails(entry.details),
         levelText: String(entry.level ?? 'INFO').toUpperCase(),
         innerExecutionId: nonEmptyLogDetail(details['innerExecutionId']),
         innerNodeId: nonEmptyLogDetail(details['innerNodeId']),
@@ -255,6 +258,30 @@ export function buildVisibleExecutionLogs(logs: ExecutionEventLogEntry[]): Execu
     });
 }
 
+/**
+ * What an event carries beyond its sentence - iteration numbers, character counts, tool names.
+ *
+ * <p>Formatted here rather than in the template because the decision of what is worth opening
+ * belongs with the data: an event with no details, or an empty map, must not offer a button that
+ * opens nothing.
+ */
+export function formatExecutionLogDetails(details: unknown): string | null {
+  if (details == null) return null;
+  if (typeof details !== 'object') {
+    const text = String(details).trim();
+    return text || null;
+  }
+  if (Array.isArray(details) ? details.length === 0 : Object.keys(details).length === 0) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  try {
+    return JSON.stringify(details, null, 2);
+  } catch {
+    // A cyclic or otherwise unserialisable payload is still worth something to a reader.
+    return String(details);
+  }
+}
+
 function nonEmptyLogDetail(value: unknown): string | null {
   const normalized = value == null ? '' : String(value).trim();
   return normalized || null;
diff --git a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.css b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.css
index d245e0c..a4afd9a 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.css
+++ b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.css
@@ -465,6 +465,40 @@
   font-size: 11px;
 }
 
+.execution-log-actions {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 6px;
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+}
+
+/* Quiet until hovered: one of these sits on every row that carries details. */
+.execution-log-details-btn {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: center;
+  width: 24px;
+  height: 24px;
+  padding: 0;
+  border: none;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+  background: transparent;
+  color: #64748b;
+  cursor: pointer;
+}
+
+.execution-log-details-btn:hover {
+  background: #e2e8f0;
+  color: #0f172a;
+}
+
+.execution-log-details-btn mat-icon {
+  font-size: 16px;
+  width: 16px;
+  height: 16px;
+  line-height: 16px;
+}
+
 .execution-log-level {
   display: inline-flex;
   align-items: center;
diff --git a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.html b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.html
index 08f74a7..4121e6d 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.html
+++ b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.html
@@ -484,9 +484,21 @@
                       </div>
                     </div>
                   </div>
-                  <span class="execution-log-level" [ngClass]="logLevelClass(event.level)">
-                    {{ event.levelText }}
-                  </span>
+                  <div class="execution-log-actions">
+                    @if (event.detailsText) {
+                    <button
+                      type="button"
+                      class="execution-log-details-btn"
+                      matTooltip="View event details"
+                      [attr.aria-label]="'View details of ' + event.messageText"
+                      (click)="openEventDetails(event, $event)">
+                      <mat-icon fontIcon="visibility"></mat-icon>
+                    </button>
+                    }
+                    <span class="execution-log-level" [ngClass]="logLevelClass(event.level)">
+                      {{ event.levelText }}
+                    </span>
+                  </div>
                 </div>
               </div>
               }
diff --git a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.ts b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.ts
index c67a922..3244633 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/task-execution-viewer/task-execution-viewer.ts
@@ -1559,6 +1559,35 @@ export class TaskExecutionViewerComponent implements OnDestroy {
     element.scrollTop = element.scrollHeight;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Opens what an event recorded beyond its one-line message.
+   *
+   * <p>The numbers that explain a warning - how many characters were over budget, which tool was
+   * called, how long a step waited - were already reaching the browser and being dropped on the
+   * floor, leaving the API as the only way to read them.
+   */
+  async openEventDetails(event: ExecutionLogEntryView, domEvent?: Event) {
+    domEvent?.preventDefault();
+    domEvent?.stopPropagation();
+    if (!event.detailsText) return;
+
+    await this.settingsDialog.open({
+      title: event.messageText,
+      previewOnly: true,
+      fields: [
+        {
+          key: 'details',
+          label: event.type ?? 'Event details',
+          type: 'textarea',
+          readonly: true,
+          rows: 18,
+          copyable: true
+        }
+      ],
+      initial: { details: event.detailsText }
+    });
+  }
+
   logLevelClass(level: string | null | undefined): string {
     return _logLevelClass(level);
   }