Charlie HillsFree guide · Claude & Claude Code
The Stuck Chat Fix
How to spot a stuck Claude chat, the two-corrections rule from Anthropic's guide, a paste-ready restart prompt with six filled-in examples, a fresh-checker prompt, and a way to make it permanent.
Charlie Hills Added 3 November 2026 · Free
What’s inside
- 1The whole fix on one page
- 21. The 3-minute fix
- 32. Is it stuck? And why a third correction fails
- 43. One better prompt: the template and 6 examples
- 54. Where to click
- 65. Have a fresh chat check the result
- 76. Make it permanent
The whole fix on one page
|
Step |
What you do |
Time |
|
1 |
Stop. No third correction |
0 minutes |
|
2 |
Paste the pull-out prompt into the stuck chat |
1 minute |
|
3 |
Read what it wrote and fix anything wrong |
1 minute |
|
4 |
Open a new chat and paste it in |
1 minute |
|
Later |
Run the fresh checker on the result (section 5) |
2 minutes |
|
Once |
Make the rule permanent (section 6) |
5 minutes |
That’s the first part. The rest of this guide is free too.
