diff --git a/client/commander-panel.js b/client/commander-panel.js
index cbfa1660..0d2f1556 100644
--- a/client/commander-panel.js
+++ b/client/commander-panel.js
@@ -932,7 +932,31 @@ class CommanderPanel {
     }
   }
 
+  // Strip mouse-tracking MOTION reports (idle hover, no button held) from an input
+  // chunk: SGR (mode 1006) "ESC[<btn;col;rowM/m" and X10-encoded (modes 1002/1003)
+  // "ESC[M" + 3 bytes. Only motion-with-no-button reports are noise; clicks, drags,
+  // and scroll-wheel reports are meaningful to mouse-aware apps (Claude Code's TUI,
+  // vim, less) and must keep flowing. Stripping (vs dropping the whole chunk) also
+  // preserves any real keystrokes xterm coalesced into the same data event.
+  stripMouseMotionReports(data) {
+    const s = String(data == null ? '' : data);
+    if (!s.includes('\x1b[')) return s;
+    const isIdleMotion = (btnCode) => (btnCode & 0x20) !== 0 && (btnCode & 0x03) === 3 && (btnCode & 0x40) === 0;
+    return s
+      .replace(/\x1b\[<(\d+);\d+;\d+[Mm]/g, (match, btn) => (isIdleMotion(Number(btn)) ? '' : match))
+      .replace(/\x1b\[M([\s\S]{3})/g, (match, payload) => (isIdleMotion(payload.charCodeAt(0) - 32) ? '' : match));
+  }
+
   handleTerminalData(data) {
+    // Filter mouse-motion noise. Claude Code's TUI enables mouse reporting, so every
+    // mouse move over the panel emits a report — and each was sent as its own chained
+    // HTTP request, flooding the input queue and stalling real keystrokes (measured:
+    // hundreds of mouse reports queued ahead of a single typed character). Hover
+    // motion carries no meaning for the panel, so it's stripped; clicks/drags/scroll
+    // still reach the PTY for apps that use them.
+    data = this.stripMouseMotionReports(data);
+    if (!data) return;
+
     // If we're currently capturing a command, don't forward to Commander PTY.
     if (this.commandCapture) {
       if (data === '\r' || data === '\n') {
diff --git a/tests/unit/commanderPanel.mouseFilter.test.js b/tests/unit/commanderPanel.mouseFilter.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f1513272
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/commanderPanel.mouseFilter.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const vm = require('vm');
+
+// client/commander-panel.js is a browser script (assigns window.CommanderPanel at the
+// top level), so evaluate it in a sandbox instead of require()-ing it. Only the class
+// declaration runs at load time; no DOM access happens until instantiation.
+const loadCommanderPanelClass = () => {
+  const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'client', 'commander-panel.js'), 'utf8');
+  const sandbox = { window: { location: { origin: 'http://localhost' } } };
+  vm.createContext(sandbox);
+  vm.runInContext(source, sandbox);
+  return sandbox.window.CommanderPanel;
+};
+
+describe('CommanderPanel.stripMouseMotionReports', () => {
+  const ESC = '\x1b';
+  let strip;
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    const CommanderPanel = loadCommanderPanelClass();
+    strip = CommanderPanel.prototype.stripMouseMotionReports;
+  });
+
+  const x10 = (btnCode) => `${ESC}[M${String.fromCharCode(32 + btnCode, 42, 52)}`;
+
+  test('strips SGR idle-hover motion reports (the flood)', () => {
+    expect(strip.call({}, `${ESC}[<35;10;20M`)).toBe('');
+    expect(strip.call({}, `${ESC}[<51;10;20M`)).toBe(''); // motion + ctrl modifier
+    expect(strip.call({}, `${ESC}[<35;1;1M`.repeat(50))).toBe('');
+  });
+
+  test('strips X10-encoded idle-hover motion reports', () => {
+    expect(strip.call({}, x10(35))).toBe('');
+  });
+
+  test('forwards clicks, releases, drags, and scroll-wheel reports', () => {
+    for (const report of [
+      `${ESC}[<0;10;20M`,  // left press
+      `${ESC}[<0;10;20m`,  // left release
+      `${ESC}[<32;10;20M`, // left-button drag motion
+      `${ESC}[<64;10;20M`, // scroll up
+      `${ESC}[<65;10;20M`, // scroll down
+      x10(0)               // X10 click
+    ]) {
+      expect(strip.call({}, report)).toBe(report);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('preserves real input coalesced into the same chunk as motion noise', () => {
+    expect(strip.call({}, `${ESC}[<35;1;1Mabc`)).toBe('abc');
+    expect(strip.call({}, `a${ESC}[<35;1;1Mb`)).toBe('ab');
+  });
+
+  test('leaves keyboard escape sequences and plain text untouched', () => {
+    for (const input of [
+      'hello',
+      `${ESC}[A`,                    // arrow up
+      `${ESC}[1;5C`,                 // ctrl+right
+      `${ESC}[200~line1\rline2${ESC}[201~` // bracketed paste
+    ]) {
+      expect(strip.call({}, input)).toBe(input);
+    }
+  });
+});