diff --git a/tools/src/hwlab-cli/trace-renderer.ts b/tools/src/hwlab-cli/trace-renderer.ts
index deb1c6e0..0cc1924b 100644
--- a/tools/src/hwlab-cli/trace-renderer.ts
+++ b/tools/src/hwlab-cli/trace-renderer.ts
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ function isToolTraceEvent(event: TraceEvent): boolean {
 function isToolStartTraceEvent(event: TraceEvent): boolean {
   const status = String(event.status ?? "").toLowerCase();
   const label = String(event.label ?? "");
-  return status === "started" || /:started$|\/started$/u.test(label);
+  return ["started", "running", "inprogress", "in-progress"].includes(status) || /:started$|\/started$/u.test(label);
 }
 
 function isToolCompleteTraceEvent(event: TraceEvent): boolean {
@@ -516,11 +516,12 @@ function traceMarkdownFence(language: string, body: string): string {
 }
 
 function traceStatusToken(event: TraceEvent): string {
-  const status = String(event.status ?? "");
+  const rawStatus = String(event.status ?? "");
+  const status = rawStatus.toLowerCase();
   if (status === "completed" || status === "succeeded") return "ok";
   if (["failed", "blocked", "error", "timeout", "canceled"].includes(status) || event.errorCode) return "fail";
-  if (["started", "running", "accepted"].includes(status)) return "run";
-  return status || "event";
+  if (["started", "running", "accepted", "inprogress", "in-progress"].includes(status)) return "run";
+  return rawStatus || "event";
 }
 
 function traceEventTone(event: TraceEvent): TraceEventRow["tone"] {