[BUG] Windows CC Garbled Plan Mode Output
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — ant-kurt
Workaround ✓ Mentioned in thread ↓
Activity 13 comments · opened Jul 13, 2025 · closed Jul 17, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (ant-kurt, collaborator)
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Bug Description
Using plan mode works up until CC presents the Plan at which point it becomes garbled and also breaks the table layout of the printout
Steps to Reproduce
- Make a plan
- Get Plan
- See it broken or not wrapping properly. Unreadable
<img width="1605" height="762" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/452dec2e-bfb4-46ae-acc7-38b6fd33a0da" />
13 Comments
Are you using native windows or WSL?
This is native windows not wsl, I've experienced it too
Correct, only native windows - wsl is fine. The plan window issue can be mitigated by resizing the terminal window until the text wrapping is correct. Then resize back to working size
Seems to be good now in update 1.0.52 maybe i just got lucky but pretty sure it's fixed now
Out of curiosity - how are you triggering plan mode, given #3368 is blocking use of "shift+tab"? Assume you're using
--permission-mode planwhen entering Claude, and haven't found a workaround to "shift+tab"...I got this issue as well and I think I triggered plan mode almost accidentally just having "make a plan for..." in my prompt. I wasn't really paying super close attention until it came out all garbled like above. Interestingly I selected the "No" option, then asked it to reprint the plan, and that time it just spit it out as text, seemingly not in plan mode (didn't have the fancy border around it with the selectors to approve/deny) .
I use
:plan modeor:plan codeto swap:<img width="1559" height="1157" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/393b153a-87cc-41a9-bdfb-2a15271e3987" />
Windows 10.
This is an Jetbrains IDEA terminal, with the beta claude-code plugin. But it's the same approach, and same output on windows terminal running git-bash or powershell, or in a direct powershell window.
Same for shift-tab not working in any of those environments.
claude-code was installed with
npm install -g.---
Update
Hmmm, I've upgraded my node to
node-v22.17.1and claude got upgraded to1.0.53 (Claude Code), somewhere along the way things seem to have been fixed already.<img width="1558" height="973" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f4aa47a7-08db-4711-bea9-b3b03b6e63a6" />
Second screenshot is from same terminal environment (Jetbrains IDEA terminal).
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Update 2
Actually, continuing on in that exact same session that showed a correctly formatted plan above - after doing some work, I put claude back into plan mode (via
shift-tab, which just randomly started working) and started work on a different plan and it was formatted incorrectly (similar to first screenshot, but different content obviously).Fix for this will come in v1.0.54. For a workaround, shrinking the width of the terminal should fix the rendering.
v1.0.54 released a couple hours ago with this fix. Happy planning!
Fixed for my environment.
Done a couple of different plans now and seems to be formatted fine.
Windows 10, installed via
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@1.0.54running in IntelliJ IDEA terminal window.@ant-kurt I think this release introduced a regression. I can't use shift + tab anymore, I was able to do so right before I updated to 1.0.54
they changed it to alt M for the moment see https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3368#issuecomment-3082026356
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