[Bug] Skill discovery fails for skills in user .claude directory on Windows

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.251
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Sep 4, 2026

Bug Description
the C:\Users\mark\.claude\skills\grill-with-docs skill is in my .claude folder on my machine but this chat struggled to find it I had to explain. either something changed about the location of skills, symlink resolution on windows, or this harness cant index a skill folder

Environment Info

  • Platform: win32
  • Terminal: pycharm
  • Version: 2.1.251
  • Feedback ID: 51df4497-d66c-4ddb-bde4-6abd8768e4f4

Errors

[{"error":"TelemetrySafeError: VirtualMessageList: itemKeys/messages length desync (keys=34 messages=33 range=[0,34))\n    at kS (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-4v6ennwf.js:24:22792)\n    at Cm (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-4v6ennwf.js:24:16104)\n    at Da (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:20034)\n    at _u (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:38200)\n    at zh (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:84275)\n    at vg (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:83275)\n    at Zu (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:83104)\n    at Nh (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:79629)\n    at Ve (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:6260)\n    at Ye (B:/~BUN/root/chunk-mn5egq73.js:18:4791)","timestamp":"2026-09-04T13:19:50.616Z"}]

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