Mid-turn assistant text not shown

“The recap says e.g. "I looked at the header and made a proposal … Should I implement it?", but the proposal itself was never written as text in the turn.”

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Fading. 3 reports and thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 15 the week before, down from 53 a week at the late-October peak. Not fixed, but the vendor replied, Oct 22.

10 bugs in this theme

Next-step box hides the answerNo workaround yet41 people
Text emitted as hidden thinkingNo workaround yet18 people
Mid-turn text shown as summaryNo workaround yet11 people
Mid-turn text replaced by summaryHas a workaround9 people
Text before question box hiddenNo workaround yet8 people
Mid-turn text replaced by summaryNo workaround yet7 people
Long tool output not relayed4 people
Reply saved as thinking blockNo workaround yet3 people
Unexpandable summary hides messagesNo workaround yet3 people
AskUserQuestion missing on mobileHas a workaround2 people

What's included

Explanation written before an AskUserQuestion, permission prompt or next-step question box never appears; only the box is visible
Prose between tool calls is stored as a thinking block and shown as a one-line, non-expandable grey summary, dropping details and code blocks
Desktop app, Remote Control mobile view and SDK-driven apps show a paraphrase (sometimes in another language) or nothing in place of the reply
Model continues as if the user read the full text ("as I explained above") and asks approval for content never shown
Transcript lacks the text block, so hooks reading the transcript cannot find what the assistant wrote

Not included

Messages the user types during a running turn being read as tool output or absorbed mid-turn
Thinking blocks displaying or collapsing in turns with no tool call

Original reports27, newest first

Nov 6, 2026Mid-turn assistant text replaced by summary and missing from transcript JSONL#108007
Oct 31, 2026Senseless question cards you can't turn off#106440
Oct 29, 2026Thinking "summaries" confuse models: they think they said X, but the user saw Y#106043
Oct 28, 2026The "· summary" line shown in place of mid-turn assistant text is a server-generated summary of a progress-update block, and it can state the opposite of what the model wrote; the TUI presents it as if it were Claude's message#105796
Oct 26, 2026Intermediate messages between tool calls collapsed into unexpandable summary#105174
Oct 26, 2026Text before AskUserQuestion / a permission prompt often never reaches the user (written to thinking, not as a text block)#105148
Oct 25, 2026Mid-turn replies to user messages collapsed into a non-expandable grey "summary" line#104946
Oct 23, 2026[Desktop] Transcript view "Normal" replaces assistant text before tool calls with a one-line summary#104512
Oct 21, 2026Desktop Code tab: text preceding question box sometimes not rendered#104131
Oct 18, 2026Desktop Code tab: next-step box (wrap_up) asks for approval of a proposal that was never shown as text#103169

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Oct 18, 2026Desktop app (Code tab): the end-of-turn summary box can replace the whole answer#103135
Oct 17, 2026Desktop app: text written before a question box (AskUserQuestion / next-step box) isn't shown#103084
Oct 17, 2026Desktop Code tab: wrap_up question box shows no context, and it overrides a user CLAUDE.md rule that requires context#103036
Oct 16, 2026Desktop Code tab: end-of-turn question box asks for approval of content that is not shown in the chat#102857
Oct 16, 2026Text written between two tool calls reaches the user only as a one-line thinking summary (13/13 repro)#102807
Oct 14, 2026Desktop Code tab: next-step box (wrap_up with an ask) can end the turn before the reply is written#102132
Oct 14, 2026[Remote Control / Projects] AskUserQuestion from a Remote Control session never appears in the mobile app; thread stays stuck#102055
Oct 11, 2026Assistant text written before a tool call is shown to the user only as a one-line summary#101273
Oct 8, 2026AskUserQuestion dialogs in Remote Control sessions only render on the desktop, not on mobile / claude.ai#100478
Oct 5, 2026[Desktop app] Assistant messages shown to the user are replaced by paraphrased (often English) "thinking" text, and replies drift into English for a Japanese-speaking user#99641
Sep 26, 2026Messages meant for the user are sometimes emitted as hidden thinking before a tool call#97504
Sep 26, 2026Remote Control (mobile): assistant text before/between tool calls is replaced by a summary, with no way to disable it#97418
Sep 24, 2026Desktop app displays assistant reply text that the transcript records only as a (summarized) thinking block#96947
Sep 23, 2026Opus 5.5: instructed verbatim relay of a tool output over ~230 chars is never emitted as text when a tool call follows — the block is generated inside thinking (constant 274 output tokens, no text block on the wire)#96288
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
Sep 19, 2026Sonnet 5 omits text content and shows only thinking summary before AskUserQuestion#95621
Sep 14, 2026[Desktop] Normal view shows thinking summaries that look like normal chat messages from Claude#94354