Model behaviour issues on Linux — page 3

Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:linux and area:model.

1,695 issues · 522 open · 1,173 resolved (69%) · first seen May 14, 2025

Is this getting better or worse?

This class of problem is still growing. 1383 new reports in the last 90 days vs 176 in the 90 before — +686%. The open backlog peaked at 908 in 2026-07 and sits at 522 today.

0 227 454 681 908 2025-052025-102026-032026-08
2025-05 — First reports2026-06 — Most new reports (653)2026-07 — Peak backlog (908 open)

Derived by counting each matching issue from its creation date until it closed. First-party computation over the anthropics/claude-code tracker — the trend is not published anywhere upstream.

Which builds report this

637 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 145 releases. Heaviest reporters:

Report volume, not a defect count: an issue can mention a build without that build having caused the failure. Versions come from the version string in the bug-report template, matched against real published tags.

Do these get fixed?

Median time to close is 46 days across 1,173 closures. Of the 1,173 closures with a recorded reason, 8% were closed as completed and 1,084 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-08.

Workarounds reported by the community

54 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:

[BUG] Can't see Claude's thinking anymore
…problem as you. Looking through other issues, I found this workaround: Hopefully they fix it in general soon. In many cases, Claude is unusable when the thinking is not displayed. It runs for minutes, burns tokens, and…
Found in the thread of #24285 · still open
[BUG] max_tokens must be greater than thinking.budget_tokens
workaround is possible by editing settings.json (in my case in ~/.claude/settings.json), by setting the "alwaysThinkingEnabled" to false.
Found in the thread of #8756 · still open
Tool calls intermittently emitted as literal text (stray 'court' + raw <invoke>) instead of executing — mostly Edit/Read (Opus, CLI)
…k is now access-restricted for us — leaving no model-switch workaround — please consider raising severity above cosmetic. Happy to share a sanitized JSONL excerpt of the dropped-call events. Detector we used (reproduces…
Found in the thread of #64108 · still open
[Bug] Anthropic API Error: Usage credits required for 1M context window with opus-plan model
…sn't work, and just stops working at 1M Context. A feasible workaround would be to periodically use the /compact command manually.
Found in the thread of #61869 · resolved
[BUG] Settings effortLevel "max" is silently downgraded when user interacts with effort selection UI
…ot above. Using only one of the variables doesn't fix that. Workaround: - then it shows the effort in the welcome text, in the footer, and as the selected effort in .
Found in the thread of #30726 · still open

Excerpts are quoted from the linked issue so you can judge relevance before opening it. Threads that only ask for a workaround, or report that there is none, are excluded. These are community suggestions, not official guidance from Anthropic — read the full thread before applying one.

Matching issues 201–300

Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments). Listing the top 300 of 1,695 matches; the statistics above cover all 1,695.

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