Execute Command Fails: Disables Text Field and Button

[adamjdavidson]

I sure love Claude Dev.

But it has frozen twice in an hour. Abruptly, the "Start New Task" and "Type a message" are greyed out and not responsive.

Only solution is to close and restart Claude Dev.

I'm in VSC on an up-to-date Mac.

Is this a common issue?

[saoudrizwan]

Hi, couple questions that would help:

• Can you provide more details leading up to it freezing?
• Was an API request loading, or was the request finished and there was no way for you to proceed?
• Does this happen after a command is executed?
• What API provider/model are you using?

[adamjdavidson]

Thank you for responding so quickly.

I am working on a fairly simple project, a blog site, mainly just to learn Claude Dev.

It has happened twice and both times it was right after running a command. The API Call completed, I approved its request and then it went to "Start new Task" and then froze.

Then the freeze happened: I could still interact with the API response--I could move the text up and down and copy and paste. But the "Start New Task" seemed slightly grayed out and it and the "Type your task here" boxes couldn't be interacted with. When I moved my cursor over them a 🚫 appeared and I could not enter text in the Type your task here box or press the start new task button.

I'm using Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

I hope that's helpful.

[saoudrizwan]

Thanks for all the details! The button and textfield are supposed to be disabled while an API request is loading. You have to wait for the request to complete before being able to send messages or hit the button again.

[adamjdavidson]

It just froze again. Now it's just on the first screen that appears when claude dev is launched. I closed that window and restarted a new one and it worked fine. Just FYI.

[adamjdavidson]

OK. It happened again on this command. IT didn't seem to run the command and is just frozen.

[jkristoph]

I suggest you use something like loom to record a screencast showing the issue, may help. You can blur off any code you do not wish to share.

[adamjdavidson]

Good idea. Here it is: https://www.loom.com/share/5ebfc8c1c0ba4309a8326e0682548110?sid=ee26d73b-eea7-427b-a367-36c07656bdac

[saoudrizwan]

Until we can figure out what's happening and fix the issue, you can use the 'EXPORT .MD' button in the task card at the top to export your entire conversation to a markdown file which for future tasks you can ask claude to read (or just paste it into the input field)

[adamjdavidson]

Thanks for your help. I've been doing all sorts of things to get the text field and button to freeze.

It just happened and it wasn't on an execute command. Here is the console. I'll keep at it and see if I can recreate.

[adamjdavidson]

It's now freezing all the time. And I can't predict it. Below is another screen shot. And I attached the full error codes from the VSC console. I'm going to now turn off all other extensions and see if that helps.

Thanks so much for your responsive, Saoud, I'd love to support this project. I looked for a way to contribute some money but couldn't find one. Anything I can do?

Error Codes.md

[adamjdavidson]

I turned off most extensions. IT froze again, with no info in the Console.

[saoudrizwan]

Confirmed wih OP that extension is not freezing as much, and when it does task history helps him resume tasks. If anybody else faces issues with the extension becoming unresponsive, please feel free to open another issue.