Desktop app: AskUserQuestion answers render as assistant-side content, not as a user message

Environment

• Claude Desktop app (macOS), Code tab
• Observed 2026-08-01

Description

When the user answers an AskUserQuestion widget, the selected answer is displayed inline as if it were machine-side output (left-aligned, assistant styling) rather than as a user-side message (right-aligned, gray background, like typed prompts).

Why it matters

A common way to re-orient in a long session is to scroll up looking for "my last message" by its distinctive user-side styling. Widget answers are invisible to that scan: the user's own decision reads as something the assistant said/decided. In practice this caused re-reading from the wrong point in the transcript — the reader scrolled past their own answer because nothing marked it as theirs.

Expected

The chosen option (and any 'Other' free text) renders with user-message styling — or at minimum carries a clear visual marker that this content was user input.

Actual

Answer appears as a left-aligned card indistinguishable at a glance from assistant output (screenshot available on request).

🤖 Filed with Claude Code at the user's request