[Feature Request] An option to "Accept and Instruct" in Manual Mode

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Aug 28, 2025 by DN5S Closed Aug 28, 2025

There's a frequent point of friction in the Manual Accept workflow that I'd like to describe. After Claude Code suggests a piece of code, I often want to accept it and then immediately give a new, related instruction for the next step.

However, the current options make this inconvenient:

  1. Choosing Yes: This accepts the code, but Claude often proceeds autonomously to the next task. This is not ideal when I want to intervene and personally direct the next step based on the code that was just written.
  1. Choosing No, and tell Claude what to do differently: This lets me give a new instruction, but it requires an unintuitive workaround of rejecting code that was actually correct. This process feels inefficient, as it can cause the same code to be re-processed, which uses unnecessary tokens and eats into the available context window.

This leaves me choosing between an automated process I can't easily steer, or a manual workaround that feels wasteful. It's a noticeable bottleneck that slows down the rhythm of coding.

The Proposed Solution

I suggest adding a new option, perhaps named "Yes, and tell Claude what to do next" which would streamline this process.

This option would simply:

  • Apply the current code edit.
  • Halt any autonomous continuation.
  • Keep the prompt open and ready for me to type my next instruction.

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