AskUserQuestion dialog renders options but not the question text

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.207
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Activity 9 comments · opened Jul 13, 2026

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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3 Comments

michi-rechberger · 1 month ago

Same issue here, happening more frequently recently.

Environment

  • Claude Code: 2.1.201 (native install)
  • macOS 26.5.1 (Darwin 25.5.0)
  • Terminal.app (TERM=xterm-256color), no tmux

Repro context
Long-running session; the assistant printed a large diff/code-fence block (several hundred lines) immediately before calling AskUserQuestion with multiple questions (tab chips: 4 questions + Submit). The tab bar and the numbered option list render fine, but the question text between them is completely blank — just empty space where the question should be.

Happens intermittently but repeatedly, seemingly correlated with long sessions / large scrollback and large output directly preceding the question widget. Matches #77238 / #75182 (adjacent assistant text dropped around AskUserQuestion).

Workaround that sometimes helps: Ctrl+L redraw or resizing the terminal window.

applepig · 1 month ago

I disabled AskUserQuestion tool for now

pttung98qn · 1 month ago

Same issue

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