Skills issues on Linux — page 2
Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:linux and area:skills.
108 issues · 21 open · 87 resolved (81%) · first seen Nov 4, 2025
Is this getting better or worse?
This class of problem is converging. 38 new reports in the last 90 days vs 67 in the 90 before — -43%. The open backlog peaked at 25 in 2026-04 and sits at 21 today.
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
84 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 59 releases. Heaviest reporters:
- Claude Code v2.1.87
- Claude Code v2.1.126
- Claude Code v2.1.81
- Claude Code v2.1.247
- Claude Code v2.1.228
- Claude Code v2.1.215
- Claude Code v2.1.181
- Claude Code v2.1.152
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 32 days across 87 closures. Of the 87 closures with a recorded reason, 25% were closed as completed and 65 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-08.
Workarounds reported by the community
26 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:
- /remote-control (/rc) not recognized as built-in command in existing session
- …, kernel 6.8.0-101-generic) - Authentication: logged in via Workaround Starting a new session with from the terminal works correctly.
Found in the description of #28322 · resolved - [BUG] v2.1.78: Protected directory prompt in bypassPermissions has no override — forces hacky workarounds
- …t on every skill creation. 2. No override flag forces worse workarounds Since there's no setting or similar, users who need this workflow (and there are many — skills are a first-class Claude Code feature) will build wor…
Found in the description of #35646 · resolved - Any way to let Claude run /verify and /code-review on its own again?
- …s skill in automated workflows. I am already implementing a workaround for this but +1, bad idea.
Found in the thread of #79282 · still open - [Cowork] User-created skills stored in ephemeral session dirs — silently deleted on cleanup
- …t and should be protected from accidental deletion. Current Workaround As an interim measure, the following workaround is functional: - Created as a centralized, persistent skill store - Symlinked user skills from into C…
Found in the description of #31422 · still open - [BUG] 'claude-api' is consuming entire context
- …f implies), but the permission is a clean per-skill opt-out in the meantime.
Found in the thread of #70062 · 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 101–108
Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments).
- [Bug] Documentation and skill writing requests consuming tokens without completion
- [BUG] /code-review --fix reports unavailable ReportFindings tool
- [BUG] Conditional (paths:) skills can never activate in auto mode — the trigger is wired only to Read/Edit/Write, which bashFirst tells the model not to use
- skillOverrides (name-only/user-invocable-only) silently no-ops for plugin-namespaced skill keys
- [BUG] Two plugins can claim the same skill name and both install silently — and it ships in a real config today
- [Bug] skillUsage and pluginUsage not updating in ~/.claude.json after 2026-07-22
- VS Code extension: skill/slash-command messages with long arguments are never collapsible (no "Show more"/"Show less") and the sticky header hides Claude's response
- [Bug] Ultrareview free quota consumed on failed run without refund