Text emitted as hidden thinking

“Very often the user sees only the question or the permission dialog: the commands and the explanation are not on screen.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/1386/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Fading. No reports and thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 2 the week before, down from 7 a week at the late-September peak. Not fixed, but the vendor replied on another bug in this theme, Oct 22.

Text meant for the user lost as thinking before tool calls. The reply has a thinking block directly before the tool_use and no text block, so the user sees only the AskUserQuestion or permission prompt.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: AskUserQuestion prompts
Versions: 2.1.278 to 2.1.283
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow. Some reports say it used to work.

Part of: Mid-turn assistant text not shown10 bugs

Next-step box hides the answer41 people
Mid-turn text replaced by summary7 people
Mid-turn text shown as summary11 people
Reply saved as thinking block3 people
AskUserQuestion missing on mobile2 people
Mid-turn text replaced by summary9 people
Text before question box hidden8 people
Unexpandable summary hides messages3 people
Long tool output not relayed4 people

Original reports3, newest first

Oct 26, 2026Text before AskUserQuestion / a permission prompt often never reaches the user (written to thinking, not as a text block)#105148
Sep 26, 2026Messages meant for the user are sometimes emitted as hidden thinking before a tool call#97504
Sep 19, 2026Sonnet 5 omits text content and shows only thinking summary before AskUserQuestion#95621