[BUG] Epitaxy desktop: AskUserQuestion panel covers the transcript -- the Android app already renders it inline; bring the desktop to parity

Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Jun 18, 2026 by leifclaesson Closed Jun 20, 2026

Summary

On the Windows desktop app (Epitaxy), when Claude asks a question via AskUserQuestion, the option panel expands to cover most of the session window and blocks the transcript behind it. To answer well I usually need to scroll back and re-read the context that prompted the question (the diff, the options Claude laid out earlier, the file it referenced). While the panel is up I can't scroll to any of that. The only escapes are Stop or Skip, and Skip is effectively "I don't care" -- it abandons the question rather than pausing it. So the choice is answer blind or throw the question away.

The Android app already solves this

The Android Claude app renders the same AskUserQuestion as part of the conversation document, not as a covering panel. I can scroll the transcript up past the question to read whatever context I need, and temporarily hide the question panel, then come back and answer. The question stays pending the whole time. This is exactly the behavior the desktop app is missing, already shipping on Anthropic's own other client.

Screenshot (Android app -- the question sitting inline in the conversation, transcript still scrollable above it):

<img width="232" height="512" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d62ca2ae-d894-4aab-9fe4-be59df5568b0" />
<img width="232" height="512" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4d16143c-8546-46ad-90a7-cfa0fb87e608" />

Expected

Bring the desktop app to parity with Android: render AskUserQuestion inline in the transcript so the conversation stays fully scrollable while the question is pending, with the panel collapsible/hideable rather than a modal that covers the session.

Not a minimize button

To be clear, the ask is not a minimize button bolted onto the existing modal (that was my first instinct in #68327, now superseded). The right fix is the Android model: the question lives in the document, so reading context is just normal scrolling, not a special panel state.

Environment

  • Claude Code -- Windows desktop app (Epitaxy)
  • Reference (working) behavior: Claude Android app

Related

  • #62493 -- canonical open issue (the AskUserQuestion overlay obscuring preceding context). This issue narrows to the desktop-vs-Android client-parity angle, with the Android app as a concrete reference implementation.
  • #68327 -- my earlier report, closed as a duplicate of #62493 (proposed a minimize button; superseded by the inline-document approach above).

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