claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix AskUserQuestion prompt missing "Other" / free-text option, forcing stop [1 comments, 1 participants]

Summary

When the assistant uses the AskUserQuestion tool to prompt me with options, there is no visible way to supply my own free-text answer. The tool description states that users can always pick "Other" to provide custom input, but that option was not present in the UI for me — my only recourse was to send the stop command to cancel the request.

Expected

Per the tool documentation:

Users will always be able to select "Other" to provide custom text input

An Other (or equivalent) option should be rendered for every AskUserQuestion prompt, allowing free-text input.

Actual

No "Other" option was shown. The prompt only offered the model-provided choices, so to answer with anything outside that list I had to abort with the stop command.

Impact

• Forces users to cancel + restart a turn just to provide a custom answer
• Breaks the documented contract of the tool
• Particularly painful in plan-mode clarification flows where the model often can't enumerate every reasonable user response

Environment

• Claude Code CLI (terminal)
• Platform: macOS (Darwin 25.4.0)
• Model: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context)

Repro

I don't have a reliable repro on demand — it occurred on a normal AskUserQuestion prompt at the start of a session. Happy to capture more detail (screenshot, transcript, exact prompt) the next time it happens if that would help.