/usage tips block leaks into terminal after dialog dismissal

Status Fixed / completed

Reported on v2.1.117

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Activity 4 comments · opened Apr 27, 2026 · closed May 7, 2026

What I was doing

Running /usage in Claude Code (v2.1.117) on macOS, then dismissing the status dialog and typing my next prompt.

What happened

After the dialog is dismissed (Status dialog dismissed), the contextual tips block from the bottom of /usage remains drawn in the terminal scrollback / prompt area. When I start typing, my input visually collides with the leftover tip text — the tips appear to "override" the prompt rather than being cleared.

Example of what stayed on screen, with my typed text on the first line getting tangled into the leftover tip output:

how do I get rid of the 45% of your usage came from subagent-heavy sessions
   Each subagent runs its own requests. Be deliberate about spawning them — and
   consider configuring a cheaper model for simpler subagents.
  44% of your usage was at >150k context
   Longer sessions are more expensive even when cached. /compact mid-task,
   /clear when switching to new tasks.
  20% of your usage was while 4+ sessions ran in parallel
   All sessions share one limit. If you don't need them all at once, queueing
   uses it more evenly.
  d to day · w to week that appears at usage

The first line is my prompt text colliding with 45% of your usage came from subagent-heavy sessions. Subsequent lines are leftover tip body and the footer hint (d to day · w to week).

Why it matters

/usage becomes hard to read and the prompt area becomes unusable until the screen is cleared manually. There's also no documented setting to disable those contextual tips, so there's no workaround beyond clear after every /usage invocation.

Environment

Claude Code: 2.1.117
OS: macOS (Darwin 25.4.0)
Shell: zsh
Terminal: iTerm2

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] · 5 months ago

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jesserobbins · 5 months ago

Not a dup of the three suggested:

#32480 is about the dialog chrome (header row + progress bar) staying painted — different artifact.
#53406 is about floating-overlay SGR background cells — different element.
#41948 is about the / autocomplete dropdown — different element.

This one is specifically the multi-line contextual tips block at the bottom of /usage (the "X% of your usage came from…" paragraphs) leaking into the prompt area, where typed input then collides with the leftover tip text. Possibly shares a root cause with #32480, but the surface and the impact (prompt becomes unusable until clear) are different enough to track separately.

jesserobbins · 5 months ago

Fixed in 2.1.131 (Claude Code)

OS: macOS (Darwin 25.4.0)
Shell: zsh
Terminal: iTerm2

github-actions[bot] · 3 months ago

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