Bug: anthropic-skills:docx hangs silently on Windows 11 (Write permission denied)
Summary
The anthropic-skills:docx skill hangs indefinitely without any error message on Windows 11. The root cause is that the skill's internal agent cannot write to its own working directory inside the skills-plugin folder.
Environment
- OS: Windows 11 Pro
- Claude Code version: latest
- Skill:
anthropic-skills:docx
Steps to Reproduce
- Invoke the
anthropic-skills:docxskill to create a new .docx file - Observe that the skill launches but produces no output
- After a long wait (~3 min), the skill times out silently or returns with no result
Expected Behavior
The skill creates the requested .docx file and returns a success message.
Actual Behavior
The skill hangs indefinitely. When the background agent finally completes, it reports:
The Write tool was rejected, so the script cannot be written to the skills directory.
The agent tries to write a JS file to:C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Claude\local-agent-mode-sessions\skills-plugin\<session-id>\<skill-id>\skills\docx\
This write is blocked by Claude Code's permission system, causing silent failure.
Impact
- Skill completely non-functional on Windows 11
- No error surfaced to user — just hangs silently
- Workaround: use
python-docxdirectly via Bash tool
Additional Notes
Invoked multiple times (directly and via background agent) — all failed with the same root cause. The background agent's final output confirmed the Write permission issue.
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