anthropics / anthropics/claude-code

VS Code extension: agent file-read preview tabs (✻ [Claude Code]) steal keyboard focus from the tab the user is typing in

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Descripción

## Environment
- Claude Code VS Code extension 2.1.235 (also present in 2.1.233/2.1.234 bundles)
- VS Code 1.133.0, Windows 11

## Problem

While a Claude Code session is working, the extension surfaces the files the agent is reading in a `✻ [Claude Code] …` preview tab. Each time that preview opens or updates, the tab is shown via `showTextDocument(doc, { preview: true })` with **no `preserveFocus` option** — which defaults to taking focus. The preview tab therefore activates itself and moves keyboard focus, in whatever window the session lives in.

When the user is meanwhile typing (or dictating) into a *different* tab in that same window — including answering an `AskUserQuestion` prompt in another Claude Code chat — the caret is yanked out of their input mid-sentence, with no user action.

Verified with an element-level UIA focus trace: focus left an `AskUserQuestion` "Other" input and landed on the freshly re-revealed `✻ [Claude Code]` preview tab while a second session's agent read through several files, with zero clicks in the interval.

## Where

In the bundled `extension.js`, the readonly branch of the `openContent` flow creates the `/temp/readonly/…` virtual document and shows it with:

```js
d = await dp.workspace.openTextDocument(g), await dp.window.showTextDocument(d, { preview: !0 })
```

— no `preserveFocus`, so it defaults to `false` and steals focus on every reveal. (The editable branch of the same function *does* pass `{ preview: !1, preserveFocus: !0 }`, so the fix is precedented three lines down.)

## Suggested fix

Pass `preserveFocus: true` on the agent-driven preview reveals in the `openContent` path so the preview stays passive; user-initiated opens (clicking a file link in chat) can keep taking focus.

This is the file-tab cousin of the focus-jump issue fixed in 2.1.218 ("Fixed focus jumping between open Claude tabs on its own when a window with several Claude panels is restored or reloaded") and of the `preserveFocus` inconsistency reported for diff-opens in #77979 — same class, different call site.

## Impact

Scales with multi-session use: anyone running a working session and an interactive chat in one window hits this every time the worker reads files while they type. It is especially painful mid-`AskUserQuestion`, where the stolen caret can silently swallow a typed/dictated answer.

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Línea de trabajo

Open the bundled extension.js and inspect the readonly branch of the openContent flow, where /temp/readonly/ documents are shown, then compare it with the editable branch three lines later. Reproduce the issue with one session reading files while typing in another tab; done means agent-driven previews no longer steal focus while user-initiated opens retain their existing behavior.

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Evaluación

Stack tecnológico
javascript, vscode
Área
desktop-dev, developer-experience
Tipo de issue
Error
Dificultad
1/5
Tiempo estimado
Menos de una hora
Estado de actividad
Activo
Claridad
Bien especificado
Aptitud para principiantes
88/100

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