Transcript sharing fails from the Claude-initiated share prompt
What happens
When Claude asks whether I'd be willing to share the session transcript — the model-initiated prompt, not a /-command — accepting it does not result in a shared transcript. Sharing appears not to go through.
Environment
- Claude Code 2.1.241
- macOS 26.6.2
- zsh
What I can't yet tell you, and why
I don't have the exact failure text. The prompt is model-initiated and appears mid-session, so it isn't reproducible on demand, and there's no local artifact to inspect afterwards — nothing under ~/.claude records a share attempt or its outcome.
That gap is itself part of the report: a failed share leaves no trace a user can find. There's no error surfaced afterwards, no entry in any log, and no way to check whether a share succeeded. If sharing writes any client-side record, pointing at it here would let people supply the detail this issue is missing.
Why it was filed by hand
The in-product path is blocked. /feedback returns 403 (#55348, open since 2026-05-01 and still reproducing on 2.1.241 — I've added a datapoint there), so a report about transcript sharing could not be submitted through the built-in flow. One broken reporting path preventing a report about another.
Possibly related, but not the same
- #74814 and #83642 — the same consent prompt, but the opposite failure: sharing happening accidentally from a stray keypress. Both suggest this prompt's accept path has had trouble before.
- #59248 — silent retention cleanup deleting transcripts. Worth ruling out as a cause: if the transcript has already been cleaned up, a share of it would presumably fail, and that failure would look exactly like this from the user's side.
What would help
- Does the share succeed silently and only the confirmation is missing, or does it genuinely fail?
- Is there any client-side log of share attempts? If not, adding one would make this class of report answerable.
- Surfacing an error on failure — currently the prompt accepts and nothing observable follows either way.