TUI text garbles when backspacing back to agents view; maximizing window forces redraw
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened May 15, 2026 by eddiecruz3654 Closed May 19, 2026
Bug
When navigating from a subagent view back to the agents list via backspace, rendered text becomes garbled / overlapping. Workaround: maximize the terminal window — triggers a resize event that forces a full repaint and clears the corruption.
Repro
- Open Claude Code, dispatch a subagent (Agent tool or
/agents). - Navigate into the agent's view.
- Press backspace to return to the agents list.
- Observe stale / overlapping characters on screen.
- Maximize the terminal window → screen redraws cleanly.
Expected
View transition should issue a full screen clear + repaint, not leave stale cells behind.
Environment
- Claude Code: 2.1.142
- OS: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
- Shell: bash (Git Bash / MSYS)
Notes
Suggests the agents-view back-navigation path skips the full-redraw step that other view transitions do. Ctrl+L does not always clear it; only a true terminal resize event reliably forces the repaint.
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