Terminal scrollback cleared at random during conversation

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 2, 2026 by akuney Closed Apr 6, 2026

Terminal scrollback is being wiped at random points during a conversation. After it happens, only the startup banner is visible (model name, version, working directory). Conversation context is preserved — Claude still knows what we were discussing — but all visual output is gone and scrollback is empty (can't scroll up to recover it).

  • Version: v2.1.90
  • Platform: macOS (Darwin 24.6.0)
  • Shell: zsh
  • Terminal: Terminal CLI (not desktop app or web)
  • Model: Opus 4.6 (1M context)

No hooks configured. No shell auto-clear. Doesn't correlate with a specific action — seems random. Not auto-compaction (context window was at 4% when investigated).

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