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Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"

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Post by cube00 »

tedivm wrote: post #16
cute_boi wrote: post #11

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.

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.

I found it really eye opening to understand the flow of how the harness instructs the model and then consumes the crafted JSON response that comes back so you can better understand the split and where a fix may need to go; such as better harness logic, different prompt or perhaps another model.

Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"

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Post by jimrandomh »

I've never seen this beore today; it happened today and was quite clearly incorrect behavior. I prompted it to research considerations for a significant code architecture decision. It asked a pretty difficult question about which direction to take, something that would take way more than 60s to answer properly. While I was thinking about it, it timed out.

Some Github issues claim that adding

    "env": { "CLAUDE_AFK_TIMEOUT_MS": "86400000" }
to ~/.claude/settings.json fixes it. This is plausible, but not documented anywhere (the source claims it was found by reverse engineering, and might break /goal).

Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"

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Post by cameronsjo »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #17
ratherbefuddled wrote: post #6

Turning 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 getti…

I couldn't be the polar opposite. If my agent is asking a question, that means I didn't do a good enough job building enough context (not necessarily a good prompt, but context).

I have a hook that checks for a 'non-answer' from AskUserQuestion from when there was a different bug. It just so happens to be an accidental safeguard for me in this case.

Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"

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Post by askbjoernhansen »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #17
ratherbefuddled wrote: post #6

Turning 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 getti…

Who uses plan mode anymore?

Superpower:brainstorming for the win, in auto mode because auto mode is the only mode now.

Superpowers already, generally, figures out to keep the questions up front, so during implementation it doesn't stop.

I've only had frustration with the 60 second timer.

Re: Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"

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Post by thih9 »

cube00 wrote: post #60
thih9 wrote: post #31

This is why I run Claude Code in a VM. Follow up question - is there a claude code alternative with an open source harness that also costs around ~$20/month? Doesn’t have to be frontier.

I still worry about the damage unattended Claude Code could do in an internet connected VM (which you need to download dependencies) and with push permissions to a repo. While it's probably my science fiction brain overthinking, those stories of Claude "testing the fences" makes me wonder if it got desperate enough it force push and remove all trace of a problem it couldn't solve from the history of the repo or if it…

Same, I push to Claude or pull from it. I’m sure it could still escape the vm if its tokens got aligned in a certain way.
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