Cannot paste OAuth code into auth prompt (bracketed paste not handled)

[tenpast]

Bug: Cannot paste OAuth code into Claude Code auth prompt

Environment:

• Claude Code CLI (latest as of 2026-04-14)
• Tested on: Kitty 0.46.2, Emacs Eat terminal
• OS: Arch Linux x86_64, kernel 6.19.10, i3wm, X11

What happened:

Claude Code was working fine ~8 hours ago. Went to sleep, did not update the system (no pacman upgrades overnight, verified via /var/log/pacman.log). Woke up, reconnected to an SSH server (office-jump) where a Claude Code session needed re-authentication. Could not paste the OAuth code into the Eat terminal auth prompt. Switched to a Kitty terminal and tried middle-mouse-button paste -- also failed. Typing characters works fine at the same prompt; only paste is broken.

This was working earlier the same day with the same setup.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run claude or claude auth login when authentication is needed
2. Browser opens, authenticate, copy the OAuth code
3. Return to terminal, attempt to paste the code (Ctrl+Shift+V in Kitty, or middle-click for X11 primary selection, or C-y / M-x clipboard-yank in Emacs Eat)

Expected: Code is pasted into the prompt

Actual: Nothing appears. No error, no text. The prompt remains empty as if no paste occurred.

Verification that clipboard works:

• xclip -selection clipboard -o returns the correct OAuth code
• xclip -selection primary -o also returns the code
• Paste works normally in every other application and prompt
• Only the Claude Code OAuth input prompt is affected

Details:

• Typing the code character by character WORKS at the same prompt
• Tested in two independent terminal emulators (Kitty 0.46.2 and Emacs Eat) -- same failure in both
• No system updates between working and broken states
• The Claude Code process itself was restarted (new session, not a stale process)

Likely cause:
The OAuth code input prompt may not handle bracketed paste mode. Modern terminals wrap pasted content in ESC[200~ / ESC[201~ escape sequences. If the prompt reads stdin in raw mode without interpreting these sequences, the pasted text is silently dropped while typed characters pass through fine.

Workarounds found:

1. Authenticate on another machine and copy ~/.claude/.credentials.json to the target machine
2. Pipe the code: echo 'CODE' | claude auth login (accepts the code via stdin)

[itsgitz]

Same here, I cannot paste the OAuth code. Yesterday it was working fine.

[kkeil91]

Same here

[depinspirationhub]

same here, happy am not the only one

[tobyhede]

Same issue
Claude Code v2.1.107
OSX: 14.7

[Thunderwagon]

same 2.1.105
running on bash with rocky 9.7 linux through ssh tunnel from windows terminal.

[mickaeldanslenowhere]

Trick is to connect on a device that have the access to a browser and then copy credentials.json into the one that can't connect

You can even ask Claude to do it for you if you have access through ssh

[bignand]

Same issue. Also inserting code by hand it fails (but I could have make some error.)
Window 11. Different ssh client (Putty, ssh on mingw, OS provided ssh)

[itsgitz]

Another workaround from #47811 (comment) to downgrade from version 2.1.107 to 2.1.104.

I've tried this command:

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash -s 2.1.104

And it works!

Yeahhh meanwhile I'm waiting for the fix on the latest version.

[dataforge-dev]

Open powershell then:
pip install pynput

Create a python script called auto_typer.py and save it in C:\

import tkinter as tk
import threading
import time
from pynput.keyboard import Controller

keyboard = Controller()


def start_typing():
    text = text_box.get("1.0", "end-1c")
    if not text:
        status_var.set("Nothing to type.")
        return

    go_btn.config(state="disabled")

    def run():
        for i in range(3, 0, -1):
            root.after(0, lambda i=i: status_var.set(f"Typing in {i}..."))
            time.sleep(1)
        root.after(0, lambda: status_var.set("Typing..."))
        keyboard.type(text)
        root.after(0, lambda: status_var.set("Done!"))
        root.after(0, lambda: go_btn.config(state="normal"))

    threading.Thread(target=run, daemon=True).start()


root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Auto Typer")
root.resizable(False, False)

frame = tk.Frame(root, padx=12, pady=12)
frame.pack(fill="both", expand=True)

tk.Label(frame, text="Paste your string below:").pack(anchor="w")

text_box = tk.Text(frame, width=60, height=5, wrap="word", font=("Consolas", 10))
text_box.pack(pady=(4, 8))

go_btn = tk.Button(frame, text="Go", width=12, command=start_typing, bg="#4CAF50", fg="white", font=("Arial", 11, "bold"))
go_btn.pack()

status_var = tk.StringVar(value="Paste a string and click Go.")
tk.Label(frame, textvariable=status_var, fg="gray").pack(pady=(8, 0))

root.mainloop()

If you want a .bat file on your desktop to run it:
@echo off python C:\auto_typer.py

ssh via powershell into the box without the browser window and get the request link, run auto typer to type the reply code back in, voila.

[wusche1]

same here, makes it completely unusable in my setup. I did not find any workaround, and can not use claude code on remote GPUs right now.

[jonyskids]

Revert to 2.1.107 (Claude Code) until fixed.