Agents issues on VS Code — page 2
Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:vscode and area:agents.
105 issues · 41 open · 64 resolved (61%) · first seen Feb 25, 2026
Is this getting better or worse?
This class of problem is holding steady. 43 new reports in the last 90 days vs 38 in the 90 before — +13%. The open backlog peaked at 41 in 2026-10 and sits at 41 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
78 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 59 releases. Heaviest reporters:
- Claude Code v2.1.283
- Claude Code v2.1.270
- Claude Code v2.1.123
- Claude Code v2.1.296
- Claude Code v2.1.287
- Claude Code v2.1.284
- Claude Code v2.1.280
- Claude Code v2.1.263
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 35 days across 64 closures. Of the 64 closures with a recorded reason, 11% were closed as completed and 57 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-09.
Workarounds reported by the community
18 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:
- [MODEL] Opus 4.8 starts hallucinating results before parallel tasks finish
- …e upstream fix is unknown) 1. is the only durable user-side workaround for both hazards, per longitudinal data in [ 62123 comment 4569840435]( (4.6 clean → 4.7 onset → 4.8 worst, including 1M context). @timmywheels named…
Found in the thread of #63884 · still open - [BUG] VSCode: background agent output streams into foreground chat, disrupting active conversation
- …ines against that seems an unusually lopsided cost/benefit. Workarounds meanwhile 1. — removes from the Agent tool schema entirely; results return as collapsed tool results. 2. per spawn. Note synchronous is not serial —…
Found in the thread of #64651 · resolved - [BUG] 2.1.114 regression: background subagents cannot write to paths listed in permissions.allow — works in 2.1.112
- …rmation Tests performed during diagnosis Test 0 — Discarded workaround as unsafe: The known workaround for the related pre-existing bug 40502 ( in subagent frontmatter) was tested and rejected because it disables the ent…
Found in the description of #50267 · resolved - [Critical] Background agents cannot be stopped, Claude lies about stopping, massive token waste (~1.4M tokens), inconsistent statements
- …nage to debug their own projects. Of course, these are only temporary fixes — not permanent solutions. Our problems can only be fully resolved by Anthropic. I asked my Claude to look through the issues it has read and se…
Found in the thread of #41461 · resolved - [BUG] A renamed session reverts to its derived <dir>-<nn> name after any restart, so ListAgents and SendMessage can no longer reach it
- …on disk, resume just never reads it back. There's a working workaround below — a small process wrapper, tested on two machines — for anyone who needs this fixed today rather than upstream. If I rename a session, the name…
Found in the description of #95807 · 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 101–105
Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments).
- Model questions and then overrides explicit live instruction with generic skill procedure and prints secrets in plain text
- Text typed in the permission-deny dialog is lost when denying one of several parallel Agent tool calls (VS Code extension, 2.1.263)
- [Bug] Background task completion notification sent before async operation finishes
- [Bug] Planning mode: Orchestrator continues working instead of waiting for subagents
- [Bug] Subagent model parameter ignored, uses parent model instead