Mid-turn text shown as summary

“When the model writes a message to the user between two tool calls in the same turn, the message comes back as a thinking block instead of a text block.”

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I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/17184/file
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Fading. No reports and thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 1 the week before, down from 3 a week at the late-September peak. Not fixed, but the vendor replied on another bug in this theme, Oct 22.

Text between tool calls shown only as summarized thinking block. Prose written between tool calls arrives as a server-written summary instead of a text block, while the model believes the user saw its full text.

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Where: Tool-call messages
Versions: 2.1.271 to 2.1.312
Platforms: Linux, macOS
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
Text emitted as hidden thinking18 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 29, 2026Thinking "summaries" confuse models: they think they said X, but the user saw Y#106043
Oct 16, 2026Text written between two tool calls reaches the user only as a one-line thinking summary (13/13 repro)#102807
Sep 20, 2026Opus 5: prose between tool calls returned as summarized 'narration' thinking blocks since 2026-09-11 — code blocks dropped, Desktop never shows them, model believes user saw it#95764