[FEATURE] Setting to disable copy-on-selection in the agents view (TUI)

[parthnaik-phantom]

Summary

Add a setting to disable Claude Code's automatic copy-on-selection behavior in the agents view (the background-agents management UI), so selection only highlights and explicit Cmd+C is required to copy (matching native macOS terminal conventions).

Current behavior

Inside the agents view in the Claude Code TUI, any text selection (drag, double-click word, triple-click line) is automatically copied to the system clipboard, and a "copied X chars to clipboard" toast appears.

This does not happen in a normal interactive Claude Code session — only inside the agents view — so the auto-copy logic appears to live in that view's input handler specifically.

Why this is a problem

Any quick visual selection inside the agents view silently overwrites whatever the user had in their clipboard. This is surprising and easy to miss, especially because:

• The same behavior does not happen in a normal interactive Claude Code session.
• The same WezTerm session does not exhibit this behavior at a regular shell prompt or inside other TUI CLIs (e.g. Codex).

Even with WezTerm configured with disable_default_mouse_bindings = true and explicit Nop bindings on mouse-Up events, the auto-copy still happens inside the agents view, confirming it is Claude Code's own copy logic in that view, not the terminal's.

Proposed solution

Add one of:

• A copyOnSelection boolean in ~/.claude/settings.json (default true to preserve current behavior)
• An env var like CLAUDE_CODE_NO_COPY_ON_SELECT=1

Setting it to disable would mean selection only highlights inside the agents view, and Cmd+C is required to copy, matching native macOS terminal conventions and the rest of Claude Code.

Workarounds considered

CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE=1 is too heavy-handed since it disables all mouse interaction, not just the copy-on-select side-effect.

Environment

• Claude Code (latest)
• WezTerm 20240203 on macOS
• Reproduces: agents view inside Claude Code
• Does NOT reproduce: normal interactive Claude Code session, Codex CLI, shell prompt

[marc-himmelberger]

I face the same problem on Windows in the VScode terminal when connected to WSL, no special mode needed, just plain claude. I would also appreciate a dedicated NO_COPY_ON_SELECT option, as CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE also effectively breaks scrolling for me.

[pidement]

Yes please, add an option to disable this feature. I frequently use Shift-click to select a range of text, and this change breaks that behavior.

In general, I don’t like features that change the app’s behavior without asking first. This should be opt-in or configurable.

[ArthurkaX]

Add an option pls!

[ArthurkaX]

Hey everyone! Good news - it turns out this feature is actually already built into Claude Code, it's just a bit hidden.

You can disable it right now by following these steps:

1. Run the /config command in your interactive session.
2. Scroll down to the Copy on select option.
3. Change it to false and press Enter.

@parthnaik-phantom since the built-in config solves this issue, you can probably close this ticket whenever you see this!

[WillSmithTE]

Can we please make this opt-in? Terribly annoying default

[Eloren1]

Claude saw this page but still thought that there is no way to disable. Dear Claude, it's possible: /config -> Copy on select -> false but this should be done by user.

And another annoyance that you can disable in ~/.claude/settings.json:

  "env": {
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY": "1"
  }

[Eloren1]

@Youjin-cmd it's configurable, read the topic instead of ranting about all the same thing

"I agree" button

[Youjin-cmd]

@Eloren1 My bad, Thank you for your reminder!