Skills issues on Windows — page 3
Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:windows and area:skills.
212 issues · 50 open · 162 resolved (76%) · first seen Jan 5, 2026
Is this getting better or worse?
This class of problem is holding steady. 65 new reports in the last 90 days vs 84 in the 90 before — -23%. The open backlog peaked at 50 in 2026-10 and sits at 50 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
119 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 88 releases. Heaviest reporters:
- Claude Code v2.1.150
- Claude Code v2.1.126
- Claude Code v2.1.92
- Claude Code v2.1.119
- Claude Code v2.1.123
- Claude Code v2.1.108
- Claude Code v2.1.96
- Claude Code v2.1.266
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 33 days across 162 closures. Of the 162 closures with a recorded reason, 15% were closed as completed and 137 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-10.
Workarounds reported by the community
67 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:
- [Feature Request] Support the standard .agents/skills/ directory for agent skills
- …ex, Cursor, ...), with no vendor-specific copies. - Current workarounds (sync tools, symlinks into ) duplicate content or rely on hacks, and create extra work: drift, conflicts, duplicate search results. Proposed behavio…
Found in the description of #16345 · still open - [BUG] Cowork /schedule skill fails — create_scheduled_task tool not injected into session context (Windows)
- Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched [existing issues]( and this hasn't been reported yet - [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) -
Found in the description of #29022 · still open - [BUG] /claude-api bundled skill saturates context unconditionally — ~77% spike from neutral question
- …has the right file structure — it just needs a router. ▎ ▎ Workaround: A user command at ~/.claude/commands/claude-api.md overrides the bundled skill and implements on-demand loading. Effective but fragile — requires ma…
Found in the description of #63566 · resolved - Skill tool call returns 'Tool result missing due to internal error' and agent gets stuck
- …aming hangs indefinitely - 26224 — General hanging/freezing Workaround User must Ctrl+C and manually re-invoke the skill. The CLAUDE.md directive to "immediately retry on internal error" is not followed because the agent…
Found in the description of #43866 · resolved - [BUG] Invoking a skill (slash command) pins a large injected block and shrinks the assistant response into a tiny scroll area (VS Code extension)
- …. - So there's no userland (hooks/settings/skill-authoring) workaround — this needs a fix in the extension's message renderer itself: apply the same "Show more" collapse to skill-injected content that already applies to…
Found in the thread of #72590 · resolved
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 201–212
Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments).
- [Bug] Skill discovery fails for skills in user .claude directory on Windows
- [BUG] Add/Update Skill intermittently forces full re-login instead of retrying transient auth 503
- [BUG] docx skill validator crashes with UnicodeDecodeError on Windows (missing encoding="utf-8" in validators/base.py)
- docx skill: docx-js output has no default "Normal" paragraph style, breaks python-docx readers
- C:/Program Files/Git/ slash-command picker shows no dropdown (startup hook logs "0 baseline skill(s) synced")
- /doctor skill applies CLI-installation assumptions when run in Claude Code Desktop (Windows)
- [Bug] System Prompt/Skill Instructions Not Persisted Across Messages
- code-review skill diffs against wrong base branch, pulls in unrelated files as findings
- [BUG] Slash Menu Issue And Claude Desktop CodeIntegrity.cat Issue
- skill-creator: description optimization loop silently measures nothing on Windows (select() on pipe, then cp1252 report crash)
- [Bug] Anthropic API Error: All review agents terminated before completing task
- [Bug] Unintended model fallback from Claude 3.5 Sonnet during /security-review built-in skill