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After a conversation session ends with errors, attempting to resume or continue the session results in repeated API errors. Every message typed triggers the same error and the session cannot be recovered. Error message API Error: 400 messages: text content blocks must be non-empty 3. Every input returns the 400 error — the session is stuck Claude Code should either recover gracefully or start a fresh session, not get stuck in an unrecoverable error loop. The root cause appears to be that an empty text content block gets written into the session history. When the history is replayed to the API on the next message, the API rejects it with a 400 error every time. Workaround: start a completely fresh session.

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Additional context The root cause appears to be that an empty text content block gets written into the session history. When the history is replayed to the API on the next message, the API rejects it with a 400 error every time. Workaround: start a completely fresh session.

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Additional context The root cause appears to be that an empty text content block gets written into the session history. When the history is replayed to the API on the next message, the API rejects it with a 400 error every time. Workaround: start a completely fresh session.

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Describe the bug After a conversation session ends with errors, attempting to resume or continue the session results in repeated API errors. Every message typed triggers the same error and the session cannot be recovered.

Error message API Error: 400 messages: text content blocks must be non-empty

To reproduce

  1. Have a conversation session that ends with errors
  2. Try to resume or continue typing in that session
  3. Every input returns the 400 error — the session is stuck

Expected behavior Claude Code should either recover gracefully or start a fresh session, not get stuck in an unrecoverable error loop.

Environment

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Claude Code version: 2.1.144
  • Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Additional context The root cause appears to be that an empty text content block gets written into the session history. When the history is replayed to the API on the next message, the API rejects it with a 400 error every time. Workaround: start a completely fresh session.

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