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Tool calls issues on VS Code — page 2

Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:vscode and area:tools.

119 issues · 22 open · 97 resolved (82%) · first seen Feb 26, 2026

Is this getting better or worse?

This class of problem is converging. 31 new reports in the last 90 days vs 51 in the 90 before — -39%. The open backlog peaked at 23 in 2026-04 and sits at 22 today.

0 6 12 17 23 2026-022026-052026-082026-10
2026-02 — First reports2026-03 — Most new reports (22)2026-04 — Peak backlog (23 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

80 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 55 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 34 days across 97 closures. Of the 97 closures with a recorded reason, 13% were closed as completed and 84 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-09.

Workarounds reported by the community

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

[BUG] AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s — continued without an answer"
Another workaround is to temporarily add the tool to the . list in your . Any Tool added to that list is entirely hidden from the model, so it will simply ask questions in prose in the chat window.
Found in the thread of #73125 · resolved
[BUG] Claude abuses bash tools for reads, writes, and edits when running in Auto Mode
…managed settings and roll it out to all the engineers as a work around until this is fixed: You may get an instruction from the harness when running in Auto Mode to favor bash commands over native tools like Read, Edit.…
Found in the thread of #87971 · still open
[Bug] Parallel tool calls hang on Bash execution errors
…ocks → 400 wedges session), 63364 (full softbrick example). Workaround that holds: stay on 4.7, or set on 4.8 to remove parallel batches entirely (sequential, slower, but no cascade possible).
Found in the thread of #63881 · resolved
[BUG] CLAUDE_CODE_EXTRA_BODY thinking config breaks WebSearch and WebFetch on Opus 4.7 [1m]
…de Code (2.1.131) What's Wrong? I run with the following in as a workaround for 49322 (thinking summaries not rendering in VS Code extension on Opus 4.7): This restores thinking summaries in the VSCode extension. But it…
Found in the description of #56984 · resolved
Bug: `SendUserFile` reports success but delivers nothing (VS Code extension)
…rendering/delivery step in the VS Code extension client. - Workaround currently in use: shelling out to (macOS) to display images via the default system viewer instead of relying on . - Happy to provide additional sessi…
Found in the description of #76739 · 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.

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