Assistant text preceding an AskUserQuestion tool call is not shown to the user

Description

When the assistant emits explanatory text in the same turn as (immediately before) an AskUserQuestion tool call, that text is sometimes not displayed — the user only sees the multiple-choice picker. Context the question depends on (in our case, a list of trade-offs the user was being asked to weigh) is silently lost, and the user has to ask for it to be repeated.

Environment

• Claude Code on Windows 11 (desktop/CLI session)
• Model: claude-fable-5
• Observed 2026-08-06

Repro sketch

1. Have the assistant produce a turn of the form: several paragraphs of markdown analysis, then an AskUserQuestion call whose question refers to "the consequences above".
2. The user-facing UI renders the picker, but the preceding paragraphs are not visible to the user ("they seem to get eaten sometimes with the multiple choice thing" — user's words).

Expected

Text emitted before the tool call renders normally above the picker.

Workaround

Embedding the full context inside the question field of the picker itself.