AskUserQuestion prompt missing "Other" / free-text option, forcing stop

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 11, 2026 by blamechris Closed May 11, 2026

Summary

When the assistant uses the AskUserQuestion tool to prompt me with options, there is no visible way to supply my own free-text answer. The tool description states that users can always pick "Other" to provide custom input, but that option was not present in the UI for me — my only recourse was to send the stop command to cancel the request.

Expected

Per the tool documentation:

Users will always be able to select "Other" to provide custom text input

An Other (or equivalent) option should be rendered for every AskUserQuestion prompt, allowing free-text input.

Actual

No "Other" option was shown. The prompt only offered the model-provided choices, so to answer with anything outside that list I had to abort with the stop command.

Impact

  • Forces users to cancel + restart a turn just to provide a custom answer
  • Breaks the documented contract of the tool
  • Particularly painful in plan-mode clarification flows where the model often can't enumerate every reasonable user response

Environment

  • Claude Code CLI (terminal)
  • Platform: macOS (Darwin 25.4.0)
  • Model: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context)

Repro

I don't have a reliable repro on demand — it occurred on a normal AskUserQuestion prompt at the start of a session. Happy to capture more detail (screenshot, transcript, exact prompt) the next time it happens if that would help.

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