Suggestion: alternative command timeout approach
Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened May 4, 2025 by mikehearn Closed Jan 3, 2026
Claude can now choose a timeout for command executions. This can easily go wrong when it's unclear how long a command should take, e.g. if it's running a test suite of some kind.
An alternative approach that might work better is to match how humans do it - every N minutes, send the output of the command so far to Claude and ask it if it wants to wait longer or press Ctrl-C. This would allow Claude to react to progress information printed by a command, allowing a form of adaptive timeouts.
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