AskUserQuestion dialog renders options but not the question text

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 13, 2026 by aaronmeza

Description

When the model calls the AskUserQuestion tool, the dialog renders the option list (labels + descriptions) and the short header chip, but the question text itself is not displayed. The user sees a set of options with no visible question above them.

Reproduced consistently across multiple AskUserQuestion invocations in one session:

  • a 4-question call (single-select, no previews), and
  • several 1-question calls (single-select, 2-3 options each).

In every case the user could only infer the question from the option labels/descriptions (and from prose the model had written before the tool call). The user did not change any related setting.

Environment

  • Claude Code 2.1.207
  • macOS 26.5.1, iTerm2 (TERM=xterm-256color), not inside tmux
  • Session model: Fable 5 (/model fable), default otherwise

Expected

The dialog shows the question text above the options, per the tool's design (question + header chip + options).

Actual

Only the header chip and options render; the question text is absent. Reproduces on every invocation in the session, including re-prompts.

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