[Feature Request] Keep the status line (usage percentage) visible while the AskUserQuestion picker is open
Problem
When the AskUserQuestion picker is open, the status line — with the session/context usage percentage — is not visible. That percentage is frequently the deciding input for the answer.
The most common shape of this: an agent finishes a chunk of a long autonomous run and asks "should I continue with the next part?". Whether to continue depends almost entirely on how much capacity is left. Right now the user has to either answer blind, or dismiss the picker, check the status line, and get the question asked again.
Why it matters more for long runs
The questions where remaining capacity matters most are exactly the ones that arrive late in a session, after a lot of work has already been spent. That is also when the number is furthest from what the user remembers from the last time they looked.
A concrete session shape where this bit repeatedly: a multi-hour autonomous run producing several PRs, each closing on a merge-approval question plus a "continue with the next item?" question. At every one of those gates the right answer was a function of the remaining budget, and at every one of them the number was hidden behind the picker.
What would help
Keep the status line rendered while the picker is open. It occupies one line and does not compete with the options for space.
Failing that, either of these would mostly solve it:
- expose the usage percentage inside the picker chrome (a right-aligned suffix on the header line would be enough);
- keep the last status line visible above the picker rather than replacing it.
Notes
- Not about the picker obscuring the assistant's preceding output (#84065) — this is specifically the status line, which is what carries the usage number.
- Related in spirit to #86920 (surfacing progress in the status line), but the opposite direction: here the status line already has the information and the picker hides it.
- Reported by a user who explicitly noted they "would often make the continue-or-not decision based on that percentage".