[BUG] Broken rendering on narrow terminal especially with "Context left until ..."

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Feb 7, 2026 by gwpl Closed Mar 8, 2026

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  • [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
  • [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
  • [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

On narrow terminal "Context left until auto completion..." writing renders as one letter column making it super high and taking up tons of vertical space as on picture below:

<img width="1728" height="1725" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fcf86dd9-8540-4f70-bfbc-500233c872cc" />

What Should Happen?

Claude Code CLI should be smarter about layout on more narrow terminals always (also in /menus etc), Claude Code CLI acceptence tests should probably include tests covering all terminal widths and fuzzing on configuration (like lengths of custom commands, plugin names etc) and asserts for esthetics utlization of terminal space and definitely not such such wated spaces of missing important information.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

After"Context left until..." appeared , just keep narrowing terminal and observe what happens until you hit very inefficient rendering layout

Claude Model

Not sure / Multiple models

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.34

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Other Linux

Terminal/Shell

Other

Additional Information

_No response_

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