Agents view: navigating into an agent and back (←) leaves stale/garbled frame until terminal resize
Status Fixed / completed
Reported on v2.1.165
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — bcherny
Workaround ✓ Mentioned in description ↑
Activity 4 comments · opened Jun 5, 2026 · closed Aug 19, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (bcherny, collaborator)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
Summary
In the multi-agent task list ("agents") view, opening an agent's detail and then returning to the list does only a partial redraw. The previous detail content overlaps the task list, header, and logo art. The TUI does not perform a full repaint on back-navigation, so the list view stays corrupted.
Environment
- Version: 2.1.165
- OS: Windows Terminal + WSL2 (Ubuntu),
6.6.x-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Steps to reproduce
- Have at least 2 background agents/tasks so the agents list view shows entries.
- From the agents list, enter an agent's detail (
→/ enter). - Navigate back to the list (
←). - The list view is rendered garbled — stale detail-frame content overlaps the task rows, header, and logo.
Workaround
- Any terminal resize triggers
SIGWINCH→ full repaint → fixes it. pkill -WINCH -f claude(sends SIGWINCH without moving the window) also fixes it.Ctrl+Ldoes not fix it.
Expected
A full repaint on back-navigation, leaving no stale frame from the agent detail view.
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3 Comments
@bogini, any progress here? This issue is very unfortunate for all Windows users.
Happening here, seems to start if I resize the window. After the first resize, whenever I minimize and maximize the claude window, this bug appears
Fixed in 2.1.169 — changelog: "Fixed agents view leaving a stale/garbled frame after navigating back from an agent on WSL in Windows Terminal" (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md). Closing — reply to reopen if it still happens on the latest version.
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