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Claude Code v2.1.248

Question prompts can no longer be answered twice

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Question prompts can no longer be answered twice or overrun by an away-timeout.

What

The dialog Claude uses to ask you a question was rewritten so that submitting, responding, cancelling, pasting an image, tab navigation and away-from-keyboard auto-advance all check an acceptance predicate first. A latch records who delivered the answer, user or AFK timeout, so an AFK timeout cannot land after you answer and an answer cannot double-fire.

Details
  • If the answer callback returns false the latch is released, and a single-question auto-submit rolls its selection back to none.
  • A new failure event, respond_build_failed, is emitted when building the "respond to Claude" result throws. It did not exist in the previous build.
  • Applies to everyone on this build; no flag involved.
Evidence

ask_user_question_answer

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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