Add option to disable prompt suggestions in Claude.ai web/app interface
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Problem Statement
The web and app chat interface shows a suggested starter prompt on the new-chat screen (e.g. "Hey Claude—I just added the [skill-name] skill. Can you make something amazing with it?"), which latches onto the most recently added skill.
Claude Code has configuration for this (CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION=false and a /config toggle), but there's no equivalent in the Claude.ai web/app interface — no settings toggle, env var, or config file to suppress it.
Proposed Solution
Add a user-facing setting in Claude.ai web/app to disable suggested prompts so new chats open with a blank input.
Alternative Solutions
Remove this feature, it is distracting and only annoys people who read it, consider if it is relevant realizing it is the same prompt time after time
Priority
Low - Nice to have
Feature Category
Interactive mode (TUI)
Use Case Example
_No response_
Additional Context
#17572, #16032 (same request for Claude Code), #14629 (the Claude Code toggle reportedly not working)
14 Comments
This is SUPER ANNOYING
Really need this. Pointless having claude quiz me about stuff I'm trying to learn if it auto suggests the answer!
This is the most annoying feature ever.
I'm with the others, please add this.
PLEASE allow this to be turned off! ;-)
Come on Anthropic, please fix this. ITS SUPER ANNOYING.
Oh, so I'm not the only one who finds this SUPER ANNOYING!
Hitting this too on the Claude.ai web app (Pro plan). Every new chat opens with the input pre-filled: "Hey Claude—I just added the humanizer skill. Can you make something amazing with it?" It latches onto whatever skill I added most recently and repeats the same suggestion on every new chat, with no way to dismiss it permanently.
Repro:
Add any skill under Customize.
Open a new chat.
The input box is pre-filled with the "I just added the [skill] skill" prompt.
It reappears every time, on every new chat.
Claude Code has CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION=false, but there's no equivalent toggle in the web/app. +1 for a settings option to disable suggested prompts. Screenshot attached.
<img width="1919" height="988" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/df1e3a32-86a2-44a7-86e7-40826e3b5a32" />
I would love to have blank input instead the app instead of some useless random welcome messages. Really, no desire for greetings from a machine. I want to turn it off.
Adding a use case that isn't just annoyance: when I use Claude for Socratic problem-solving — it poses a case and I work toward the solution — the ghost-text suggestion routinely spells out the answer before I've thought of it, which silently destroys the exercise, and unlike Claude Code (CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION=false) the web/desktop app gives me no way to turn it off.
Is there something similar to this that includes the badges popups or would this also cover that? Generally, I don't want my work interrupted by noise that is irrelevant to my work.
and the constant barrage of tips above the input box, which cannot be turned off.
I don't want to "Let's noodle", "Back at it!" or "Burning the midnight oil"? If you have the options built in to the application, surfaces them in the UI. Also provide the ability to hide new feature alerts, this isn't a game where you need guidance on how to use it.
I'm interested in this change as well, I was directed here after deleting the pre-filled prompt and asking Claude how to get rid of it. 🤓