[FEATURE] TUI queue management for messages sent during active task — view, delete, reorder, interrupt
Status Fixed / completed
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Activity 4 comments · opened Mar 20, 2026 · closed Mar 20, 2026
Feature Request
When a message is sent while Claude Code is actively working, it gets silently queued. There is currently no UI to:
- See what messages are queued
- Delete a queued message before it runs
- Interrupt Claude with a specific queued message immediately (promoting it to the front)
- Reorder queued messages
This is a significant UX gap compared to Cursor, which surfaces pending messages in the UI and lets the user manage them.
Current Behavior
- Messages typed during active execution are queued (#29224, #30677 related)
- No visibility into the queue in the TUI
- No way to cancel a queued message without waiting for current task to finish
- Docs claim Enter interrupts mid-task, but it only queues (#36326)
Desired Behavior
- TUI shows a visible queue of pending messages while Claude is working
- Keyboard shortcut or UI control to delete a pending message from the queue
- Keyboard shortcut to "interrupt now with this message" — stops current task and runs selected queued message immediately
- Works in both terminal TUI and VS Code extension
Why This Matters / Cursor Parity
Cursor surfaces the message queue prominently and lets users interrupt or discard pending messages mid-task. This is a core part of the human-in-the-loop control model. Without it, users either:
- Have to wait for the full task to finish before correcting course
- Hit Escape (cancels everything) with no way to selectively manage the queue
Related Issues
- #29224 — Side-channel responses for queued messages
- #30677 — VS Code queued message support
- #36326 — Enter queues instead of interrupts (docs bug)
- #34835 — Queue up messages feature request
4 Comments
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@claude you need to take all the novel suggestions in this and add to the description of the linked open duplicate candidate
Closing as duplicate of #34835. Novel additions (view queue, delete queued message, promote/interrupt, reorder) have been added as a comment on the parent issue.
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