AskUserQuestion auto-dismisses after 60s while the user is mid-answer

Bug

When Claude uses the AskUserQuestion tool, the prompt is auto-dismissed after ~60 seconds with "No response after 60s — the user may be away from keyboard. Proceed using your best judgment." This fires while I am actively typing/selecting answers — multi-part design questions with several options and free-text notes routinely take longer than 60 seconds to answer properly.

In the user's words: it's fucking annoying and wastes my time — I was in the middle of answering, three separate times in one session, and the dialog got yanked away each time. Partial selections were returned to the model, custom text was cut off mid-thought.

Expected

• The prompt should not time out while there is active input (typing, option focus changes).
• Or the timeout should be much longer / configurable in settings.
• At minimum, preserve and submit whatever the user had entered rather than discarding an in-progress answer.

Environment

• Claude Code CLI on macOS (darwin 25.3.0)
• Model: claude-fable-5
• Repro: any AskUserQuestion with 3 questions x 3+ options; start writing an "Other" free-text answer; dialog dismisses at ~60s.

🤖 Filed by Claude Code on the user's behalf