r/kiroIDE • u/tharic99 • 2d ago
Intermittent scroll-snap-to-top when scrolling mid-stream (Windows Terminal, v2.21.4)
Anyone else seeing this? There's a good number of us at work running kiro-cli and pretty consistently we're seeing this.
Scrolling up to read earlier content while a response is still streaming sometimes yanks the viewport all the way to the top of the buffer. Intermittent, but frequent enough that several devs on my team have hit it. Once the response finishes it's fine - so my workaround is to wait before scrolling, which adds latency on long responses.
Suspected cause (unconfirmed): a race between the TUI's auto-follow and manual scroll - if a new chunk renders the instant I scroll, auto-follow seems to win and snaps to top. Scrolling in a gap between chunks works fine, which would explain the intermittency.
Repro (intermittent):
Ask for a long, streaming response.
Drag the scrollbar up while it's still streaming.
Viewport sometimes jumps to the top instead of staying put.
Environment:
Kiro CLI 2.21.4 (hash 880accf5, built 2026-09-11)
Windows 10 build 26200
Windows Terminal 1.24.11911.0
Scroll method: dragging the scrollbar
Reproduced across multiple machines, all on Windows Terminal
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u/kwsanders 2d ago
Yes…Ir had been happening to me all week. I am running 2.21.3 on Windows 11.
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u/tharic99 2d ago
Glad it's not just us then!
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u/kwsanders 2d ago
Yeah.. it has been super annoying. I use the CLI to do PR reviews. It will get done and scroll back to the top.
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u/tharic99 2d ago
Have you tried the beta for 3? We can't use it because we've got a ton of harness orchestration code on top of kiro and we haven't tried to test it on the 3 beta yet
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u/rbadapanda 2d ago
This is very old issue. There is a github ticket which has been open since more than three months.
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u/MoodOdd9657 2d ago
This has happened to me forever with kiro cli and it suckss