Terminal AI tool output flickers and jumps scrollback
Terminal output flickers or jumps to the top of history while the status spinner or streamed text updates.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 12 April 2025 · last reported 10 June 2025
What's going wrong
Developers using Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal coding assistant, report that their screens flicker or jump back to the top of the scrollback while the status spinner animates or streamed text appears.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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