[BUG] AskUserQuestion: "No response after 200s — continued without an answer"

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

● Claude asked:
[...]
● No response after 200s — continued without an answer

This is still happening, albeit with a longer timeout, even though config set to never do this:

 ❯ Question auto-continue timeout             never

What Should Happen?

When this config is set, AskUserQuestion should NEVER timeout. This was already a serious degradation and issue and if, when this happened before, I didn't set up the memory to always wait for an answer this would have massively caught me out.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open claude code
2. set the config
3. ask it to ask you a question and step away for a bit
4. come back it just made up the answer for you

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

2.1.196

Claude Code Version

2.1.211 (Claude Code)

Platform

Other

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Additional Information

I am using tmux with WSL in a windows terminal.

This is a continuation of: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/73125