Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
A user reports that when Claude asks a question via AskUserQuestion and receives no response for 60 seconds, the system continues without an answer, potentially leading to incorrect assumptions or incomplete information gathering.
Background
- This GitHub issue on the Anthropic/claude-code repository reports a bug in Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI coding agent): when the tool asks the user a question and receives no keyboard response for 60 seconds, it silently continues without an answer — effectively ignoring the user's lack of input.
- The issue title references "AskUserQuestion," which is a mechanism in Claude Code where the AI agent pauses and prompts the human developer for input (e.g., to confirm an action or clarify intention) before proceeding.
- The bug undermines a core expectation: that if Claude Code asks for user input, it should either wait indefinitely, timeout with an error/message, or handle missing input explicitly — not silently proceed as if the user answered.
- This matters to developers (especially non-native English speakers reading technical GitHub threads) because it affects safety and reliability of AI-assisted coding tools: silent continuations could lead to unintended writes, commits, or deployments without user consent.
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