Long submitted prompt stays fully expanded in history, pushing assistant's response out of view (VS Code extension)

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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 24, 2026

Environment: Claude Code VS Code extension (not the raw CLI terminal — this may be VS Code-extension-specific).

When I submit a multi-line prompt, it stays fully expanded in the conversation history with no way to collapse/truncate it. On a laptop-sized screen, the combination of (1) my long prompt, (2) the assistant's response, and (3) the empty prompt box below leaves very little vertical space — scrolling only reveals about one line at a time between them, making it slow and awkward to read the assistant's response right after sending a long prompt.

Expected behavior: previously-submitted long user prompts should be collapsed/truncated by default in the history view (with an option to expand on demand), so the assistant's response is immediately visible without excessive scrolling.

Context: Windows, Claude Code VS Code extension.

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