[BUG] Chat scroll is constrained to most recent assistant turn while AskUserQuestion card is showing

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?

When an AskUserQuestion card is active in the Claude Code chat, scrolling
within the chat panel scrolls only the most recent assistant turn, not the
entire conversation. Earlier messages are inaccessible while the question card
is shown, even though they remain in the on-disk transcript.

The question card itself also visually overlaps the bottom of the most recent
assistant message in narrow panel placements, but the scroll-constrained
behavior is the more impactful problem because it blocks me from re-reading
the context that the question is asking me to decide on.

What Should Happen?

The chat panel scrolls through the entire conversation history; the question
card stays anchored at the bottom but does not constrain scroll above it.

** A nice-to-have would be the ability to move the Ask UI to a separate panel or make it floating so it can be moved on the screen

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce

1. Start a conversation that runs for several assistant turns (long enough that

not every turn fits in the chat viewport).

1. Have the assistant call AskUserQuestion.
2. While the question card is showing, attempt to scroll the chat panel up to

view earlier messages.

Expected

The chat panel scrolls through the entire conversation history; the question
card stays anchored at the bottom but does not constrain scroll above it.

Actual

Scroll is constrained to the most recent assistant turn. Earlier turns are
not reachable from inside the chat panel until the question is answered.

Workarounds attempted

• Move View → Move to Editor Area (chat as a full editor tab): the panel

becomes much taller, but scroll is still constrained to the most recent
assistant turn while the question card is up.

• Move View → Move to Secondary Side Bar / Move to Panel: same outcome.
• Resizing the panel taller: same outcome.

The only way I've found to read the earlier conversation while a question is
pending is to render the on-disk JSONL transcript
(~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<session>.jsonl) to Markdown in a side tab.

Environment

• VSCode: 1.119.0
• Claude Code extension: 2.1.138 (linux-x64)
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (Linux 6.8.0-111-generic)
• Repro confirmed in default sidebar, secondary sidebar, and editor-area

placements.

Suggested fix direction (optional)

The question card likely sits inside the same flex/scroll container as the
most recent assistant turn, which limits scroll to that container. Hoisting
the card to a sibling of the entire message list (sticky-bottom inside the
panel, but outside the message-list scroll container) should let users scroll
the full transcript while the card remains visible.

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.137

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Terminal/Shell

VS Code integrated terminal

Additional Information

_No response_