feat(chat): clickable clarifying questions in the host chat - #393
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The host Claude chat can now ask the user a quick multiple-choice question that renders as one-click option chips; clicking one sends that choice as the next turn. Why a convention, not the AskUserQuestion tool: AskUserQuestion is auto-dismissed in headless `claude -p` mode (verified — the CLI resolves it to an errored/empty result before any stdin answer lands), so it can't be answered over the stream. Instead we teach the chat a tiny fenced `corral-question` convention (first-turn guidance in chat.go), parse it client-side (lib/chatQuestion.ts), and render the options as chips. Plain prose still works; the block is stripped so nothing leaks. - chat.go: chatQuestionGuidance prepended on the first turn (page-independent; later turns inherit via --resume). Reaches every host chat (global/project/PR). - ChatPanel: parse the latest assistant message for the block when idle; render question + option chips; a click sends the option (reuses sendPrompt). - Updated TestWithContextHint for the new first-turn prefix. Verified with a mocked chat WS: chips render, the raw block is stripped, and clicking sends the option as the next turn. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The host Claude chat can now ask the user a quick multiple-choice question that renders as one-click option chips; clicking one sends that choice as the next turn.
Why a convention, not the AskUserQuestion tool
I verified empirically that AskUserQuestion is auto-dismissed in headless
claude -pmode — the CLI resolves it to an errored/empty result before any stdin answer can land, so it cannot be answered over the stream. Instead this uses a tiny fencedcorral-questionconvention the chat is taught to emit, parsed client-side and rendered as chips. Plain prose still works; the block is stripped so nothing leaks.Changes
chat.go:chatQuestionGuidanceprepended on the first turn (page-independent; later turns inherit via--resume). Reaches every host chat — global dock, project, PR review.ChatPanel+lib/chatQuestion.ts: parse the latest assistant message for the block when idle; render the question + option chips; a click sends the option (reuses the queue-awaresendPrompt).TestWithContextHintfor the new first-turn prefix.Verified
Mocked chat WS: the assistant's prose renders, the fenced block becomes clickable Staging / Production chips (raw block stripped), and clicking sends the option as the next turn (
prompts_sent=["deploy the app","Production"]). Go tests + typecheck + build pass. Screenshot-confirmed.🤖 Generated with Claude Code