[DOCS] Claude for Desktop docs recommend creating issues that will be auto-labelled as "Invalid"
Documentation Type
Unclear/confusing documentation
Documentation Location
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop#still-stuck
Section/Topic
Advice on how to log an issue
Current Documentation
The documentation on what to do when stuck with a problem in Claude for Desktop at https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop#still-stuck recommends - as one's first resort - to:
Search or file a bug on GitHub Issues
What's Wrong or Missing?
If one does create an issue in that repo specifically related to Claude for Desktop and not to Claude Code CLI, it seems that a Github Action will add the label "Invalid [Issue doesn't seem to be related to Claude Code]": https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22invalid%22
This is confusing at best.
Suggested Improvement
Three possible solutions spring to my mind, listed in order of my personal preference (although I don't pretend to have taken more than a few seconds to imagine them and I'm sure the possible solutions are myriad):
- Provide a public issue tracker for Claude for Desktop and replace (or supplement?) the link to https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues in the aforementioned doc with a link to this dedicated issue tracker
- Improve the GitHub action such that it more reliably differentiates between ("this is not related to Claude Code" and "this is not related to Claude Code CLI but it _is_ related to Claude for Desktop, and we do kind of tentatively encourage people to log such issues here in the docs, so..."
- Simply remove the suggestion to report such an issue in the claude code repo (at least we'd all know where we stand...)
Impact
Medium - Makes feature difficult to understand
Additional Context
In itself, it's hard to really measure the "impact" of this confusing documentation. What _is_ of high impact to me is that there happens to be a bug in Claude for Desktop that has a high impact on me, and whilst I've reported it here, I'm left wondering whether any fix will ever be forthcoming