"Looks up and tracks known Claude product issues — searches known GitHub bugs, checks service health and model quality, and maintains a persistent registry of tracked issues. Use when: 'is this broken', 'known CC bugs', 'troubleshoot Claude Code', 'any workarounds', 'feature behaves unexpectedly', 'scan repo for issues', 'file a bug' — actions: status (default), search <feature>, check-all, scan, list, quality, create."
Resources
3Install
npx skillscat add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/plugins-claude-ops-skills-known-issues Install via the SkillsCat registry.
Pre-computed context
Claude Code version: !claude --version 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown"
Variables
Arguments: $ARGUMENTS
Purpose
Claude Code ships frequently. Features that worked last week may have new bugs today. This skill serves three purposes:
- Quick health check — snapshot of registry health and model quality (no args needed)
- Proactive search — find known bugs BEFORE you build on top of a feature
- Issue registry — maintain single source of truth for the Claude product GitHub issues you track, record what they block, and create follow-up work items when bugs are fixed
Data Files
The issue registry (registry.json) persists in the registry directory. By default this is the
plugin's per-machine data directory (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}, survives plugin updates). A consumer can
instead keep the registry inside their repository — git-tracked and team-shared — by setting theregistry_dir plugin option (personal user configuration).
Registry location — apply to EVERY registry_manager.py invocation: the configured value is${user_config.registry_dir}; the project root is ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}.
- If
${user_config.registry_dir}is a non-empty path → first require a contained
project-relative value. Reject POSIX/rooted paths, Windows drive-qualified or drive-relative
paths, UNC paths, any..segment with either separator, and any existing symlink path that
resolves outside${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}. If invalid, stop the registry action, report the
configuration problem visibly, and direct/claude-ops:setup; do not join, normalize, create,
or use the destination. If valid, pass--data-dir "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/${user_config.registry_dir}". - If it is empty or still shows an unexpanded
${user_config.registry_dir}token (option unset) → OMIT--data-dir; the script falls back to${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}.
| File | Purpose | Who edits |
|---|---|---|
<registry-dir>/registry.json |
All tracked Claude product GitHub issues with status, category, affected files, and what's blocked | Skill (on search/scan --add/check-all), via scripts/registry_manager.py — see the registry-location rule above |
Read context/registry-schema.md for the full registry.json schema and field enums.
Action Router
Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract action (first token) and remaining arguments.
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
status |
Quick health summary — registry stats + quality snapshot (DEFAULT when no args) |
search |
Search GitHub Issues for bugs on a specific feature (default when args look like a feature name) |
check-all |
Check ALL tracked registry issues — find newly resolved ones, create follow-up TODOs |
scan |
Grep the current repo for GitHub issue references and report untracked ones (read-only); scan --add also registers them |
list |
Show all tracked issues grouped by status and category |
quality |
Full quality check — benchmarks + status page + recent GitHub degradation reports |
create |
Draft and file GitHub issue on anthropics/claude-code using their template format |
Smart routing:
- No
$ARGUMENTS→status $ARGUMENTSstarts with action keyword → that action$ARGUMENTSdoesn't start with action keyword →searchwith entire argument as feature name
Action: status
Read context/action-status.md for full status process and output format. DEFAULT action when no args.
Action: search
Read context/action-search.md for full search process, flags, and output format.
Action: check-all
Read context/action-check-all.md for full check-all process and output format.
Action: scan
Read context/action-scan.md for full scan process and output format.
Action: quality
Read context/action-quality.md for full quality check process, sources, and output format.
Action: list
Read context/action-list.md for full list process and output format.
Action: create
Read context/action-create.md for full issue creation process, mandatory gates, and safety rules.
Repos Reference
| Product | Repo | When to search |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | anthropics/claude-code |
Default — hooks, skills, settings, plugins, tools |
| Python SDK | anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python |
Python API client issues |
| TypeScript SDK | anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript |
Node.js API client issues |
| C# SDK | anthropics/anthropic-sdk-csharp |
.NET API client issues |
| MCP Protocol | modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk |
MCP server/client issues |
| Azure MCP | microsoft/mcp |
Azure MCP server issues |
Integration Points
With your work-item tracker
check-allproposes follow-up work items for resolved issues (file them with whatever
tracker the consumer project uses — e.g.gh issue create— after user confirmation)searchsuggests monitoring items for open issues worth watching
With the consumer project's workarounds docs
If the consumer project documents Claude Code quirks/workarounds (e.g. in CLAUDE.md or a
rules file), cross-reference: search checks findings against it, scan surfaces documented
issues not yet in the registry, and a resolved issue's follow-up TODO includes cleaning up the
now-obsolete workaround. Skip silently when no such doc exists.
With plan review
When stress-testing a plan that builds on a Claude Code mechanism, run search for that
mechanism first — known bugs reshape plans cheaply before implementation.
With /bug-report:write (if installed)
For bugs in YOUR code (not Claude Code itself), use the bug-report plugin's skill instead;
without it, write up the defect manually. This skill covers Claude product issues only.
What This Skill Does NOT Do
- Does not read local telemetry — OTEL store, collector, hooks, ccusage →
/claude-ops:observability - Does not fix bugs — reports and tracks them
- Does not test features — searches for KNOWN issues
- Issue creation requires explicit confirmation —
createaction always shows draft first, never auto-files - Does not monitor continuously — re-run
check-allperiodically (e.g. from a recurring work item or schedule)