werkregie/doc/prs/2026-10-12-PR#50-answer-as-input.md

PR#50: The Last Input in the Tooltip Includes an Answer to AskUserQuestion

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Problem

Since PR#47, the tooltip of a waiting Claude Code session in "Du bist dran" shows the user's last input. Live, on 2026-10-12, both waiting sessions showed no input: the user had answered only through AskUserQuestion since the last typed prompt, and that prompt lay before the last 512 KiB of the transcript, the part that is read.

Non-Goals

• No change to Claude's question in the tooltip.
• No reading of a whole transcript of many megabytes.

Specification

Feature: the tooltip shows the user's last input, also an answer to AskUserQuestion

Scenario#50.01: an answer to AskUserQuestion is the last input

… so that the tooltip shows what the user decided last.

• Given a session whose user last answered an AskUserQuestion with "OpenRouter"
• When the dashboard reads the sessions
• Then the last input of the session is "OpenRouter"

Verified by

• TranscriptTest "an answer to AskUserQuestion is the last input"

Scenario#50.02: an older prompt is found

… so that a long run of tool output does not hide the last input.

• Given a session whose last prompt "Baue den Export" lies before the last 512 KiB of its transcript
• When the dashboard reads the sessions
• Then the last input of the session is "Baue den Export"

Verified by

• TranscriptTest "a prompt before the read end is found"

Solution

• Transcript.end takes the answers of an AskUserQuestion from the entry's toolUseResult.answers as input of the user.
• Without an input in the last 512 KiB, it reads the transcript backwards in parts of 512 KiB, up to 8 MiB, until it finds one. The parts end at the start of a line, so no line is cut; a part inside one long line holds no whole line, and the search goes on before it.
• A local check on think with the live transcripts showed an input for all 4 waiting sessions, 2 of them answers.
• Version 0.30.0.

Open Questions

• A typed prompt only, or also an answer to AskUserQuestion? Both, chosen by the human; the later one counts.