[BUG] [!! URGENT] CLI keeps cleaning the window randomly even inside the same session

Resolved 💬 9 comments Opened Apr 1, 2026 by alessandroavenali Closed Apr 19, 2026

Preflight Checklist

  • [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?

Old parts of the terminal window get cleaned mid-developing (inside the same session) or between one session and another one. It's really irritating that I can't watch back what I told Claude or what he did answer me, to copy-paste useful stuff, recontextualize certain specific arguments and such.
Why is Claude cleaning up the board?
I'm now in a window of just 86K tokens used and can't even see my original prompt in THIS session.
If i ask Claude to tell me my original prompt, it can recover it.

I feel this always existed but I'm seeing it somehow got worse.

What Should Happen?

Don't clean history! I have enough gigs of ram to run months of CC history in the terminal window.

Error Messages/Logs

Claude replaces old messages with its header 

 ▐▛███▜▌   Claude Code v2.1.89
▝▜█████▛▘  Opus 4.6 (1M context) with high effort · Claude Max

Steps to Reproduce

Just normal sessions....

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

No, this never worked

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.89

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Additional Information

_No response_

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