This is the reason why claude code should be open sourced... But, I guess Boris or Anthropic team doesn't care about it, so that they can continue to install slop at user machines.
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Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#12To each his own I guess. There was nothing more frustrating than walking away from a CC session you expected to churn away at for an hour and coming back to a user question sitting there. More useful would be just getting a list of clarifying questions at the end of the session along with how it answered itself to follow up with or not.
Understandable frustration. It would make sense to have this enabled by default for one of the auto modes. But it seems to apply to all modes and no way to turn it off.
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#13Just ran into this, and what the ACTUAL fuck were they thinking. And I can't turn it off, apparently?
They were thinking users won't find this setting to turn it on, so enable it by default and users that don't liker it can turn it off. The Ralph Wiggum and /goal software indicates that some users want the AI to plow forwards, guessing at what the user actually wants. Some users don't want that behavior, but Anthropic took guess that more people want it than don't. 60 seconds is too short though, imo.
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#14Just ran into this, and what the ACTUAL fuck were they thinking. And I can't turn it off, apparently?
They were thinking users won't find this setting to turn it on, so enable it by default and users that don't liker it can turn it off. The Ralph Wiggum and /goal software indicates that some users want the AI to plow forwards, guessing at what the user actually wants. Some users don't want that behavior, but Anthropic took guess that more people want it than don't. 60 seconds is too short though, imo.
If your sane-washing of this was true, it would be possible to turn it off, but it doesn't appear to be at this moment.
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#15To each his own I guess. There was nothing more frustrating than walking away from a CC session you expected to churn away at for an hour and coming back to a user question sitting there. More useful would be just getting a list of clarifying questions at the end of the session along with how it answered itself to follow up with or not.
the point was that this landmine was activated by default instead of making it opt in. A feature like this deserves a 'yes, and allow claude to continue on future questions if the user doesn't respond in 60s' prompt
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#16This is the reason why claude code should be open sourced... But, I guess Boris or Anthropic team doesn't care about it, so that they can continue to install slop at user machines.
Yup, this is one of the many reasons why I prefer OpenCode as my agentic harness of choice. If I'm confused about something I can just read the source code.
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#17Turning this on by default is insane.
I am fine with this, and I will go as far as to say this is how most devs will be using agents soon (the big companies have already been using agents like this for 6-12 months.)
I don't want my agent to pause on some inane question once I let it loose. I might not even be at my computer for that. Usually it makes the right decision anyways. If it doesn't I can always undo what it did.
If you're worried about it getting the architecture wrong, this is what Plan mode is for BTW. It gets architectural questions out of the way first, and just let the agent build from there.
Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
#18I can see that others might not like it, but this is the behavior I desire.
In a way that isn't configurable and is on by default?
Reading the comments on the issue shows how to configure it
"env": {
"CLAUDE_AFK_TIMEOUT_MS" : ""
}
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#20I can see that others might not like it, but this is the behavior I desire.
I enjoy risk seeking behavior as well as the next guy, but lets please be adults and make this opt-in, not opt-out. If you get the LLM to ask the right questions, (for me) obviously you would want it to wait for an answer?