Preflight Checklist
What's Wrong?
Claude no longer seems to show it's thinking patterns, or very few of them. Sometimes Claude will sit there for 10 minutes, token usage going up, and I'll have a single message in my history (ctrl+o will show 1 single thought, and nothing in the non-ctrl+o view).
Opus 4.6 has a tendency to get stuck in thinking loops too, so not being able to catch these due to lack of visibility is a massive problem.
Having Claude sit there for 10 minutes without a single response or 0 or 1 thoughts shown is anxiety inducing and makes me feel like something is broken. We lose all feedback so we have no idea whether to wait another 10 minutes or kill the session and try something else. I'm hoping this is a bug and not a design change -- if it is a design change, it's a terrible one.
What Should Happen?
Show Claude's thinking patterns again so we can trace how the model is reasoning, and if its reasoning is making sense and it's on the right path. Without this feedback it's impossible to know whether extended thinking sessions are actually gaining any progress or not, which causes anxiety and provides a terrible user experience.
Error Messages/Logs
Steps to Reproduce
Self explanatory
Claude Model
Opus
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
No response
Claude Code Version
2.1.37
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
Ubuntu/Debian Linux
Terminal/Shell
WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
Additional Information
No response
Preflight Checklist
What's Wrong?
Claude no longer seems to show it's thinking patterns, or very few of them. Sometimes Claude will sit there for 10 minutes, token usage going up, and I'll have a single message in my history (ctrl+o will show 1 single thought, and nothing in the non-ctrl+o view).
Opus 4.6 has a tendency to get stuck in thinking loops too, so not being able to catch these due to lack of visibility is a massive problem.
Having Claude sit there for 10 minutes without a single response or 0 or 1 thoughts shown is anxiety inducing and makes me feel like something is broken. We lose all feedback so we have no idea whether to wait another 10 minutes or kill the session and try something else. I'm hoping this is a bug and not a design change -- if it is a design change, it's a terrible one.
What Should Happen?
Show Claude's thinking patterns again so we can trace how the model is reasoning, and if its reasoning is making sense and it's on the right path. Without this feedback it's impossible to know whether extended thinking sessions are actually gaining any progress or not, which causes anxiety and provides a terrible user experience.
Error Messages/Logs
Steps to Reproduce
Self explanatory
Claude Model
Opus
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
No response
Claude Code Version
2.1.37
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
Ubuntu/Debian Linux
Terminal/Shell
WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
Additional Information
No response