[BUG] Starting with version 2.1.2 terminal in VS Code is a mess
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What's Wrong?
Instead of normally formatted output, the terminal looks very messy now with f.e name of active subagent repeated 10 times and lots of endlines in between.
What Should Happen?
Normal output like before.
Error Messages/Logs
Steps to Reproduce
- Just run claude and ask it to anything
- Terminal would be quickly broken
Claude Model
Opus
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
2.1.2
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
Windows
Terminal/Shell
VS Code integrated terminal
Additional Information
Sometimes it is like this:
<img width="1133" height="701" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6d59647d-74aa-496d-a9d6-f13e10110520" />
Sometimes like this:
<img width="1383" height="620" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb154bf-07b3-459b-ab52-b6264e8e3bf7" />
There is always more output added and scroll keeps growing.
Resizing window sometimes helps to clean it out, but it always eventually switches back to buggy output.
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