Trouble with Claude desktop

[FEATURE] Keyboard shortcut for dictation (microphone) in main chat – Claude Desktop on Windows + claude.ai web

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[FEATURE] Desktop split view: open a new blank session as an added pane

...help, for example Ctrl+Shift+N / Cmd+Shift+N. ### Alternative Solutions Today I use this workaround: 1. Create the new session. It replaces one of the panes. 2. Find the session that left the split view in the sidebar. 3. Add it back with right-click → Open in → Split view, or...

Claude Desktop: Third-Party Inference shows "Couldn't load configuration" when _meta.json entries is empty but a config file exists

[FEATURE] Desktop: allow drag-to-reorder for computers/environments at the bottom of the sidebar

**Problem** In the Claude Desktop sidebar I can drag chats and sessions around to reorder them, but the computers/environments listed at the bottom of the sidebar can't be dragged. Their order is fixed, so the one I use most isn't always where I want it. **Proposed solution**...

Claude Desktop Conversation: ~17K initial prefill, HTTP 500 retries, MLX cache loss (0.40.11–0.40.12)

# Claude Desktop ↔ Ollama: slow initial prompt, HTTP 500 retries and MLX cache loss **Observed:** 28 October 2026, macOS (Apple M4 Max, 64 GiB unified memory) ## Summary Follow-up to #18474, which was closed requesting context size. **Configured window: 262,144 tokens (256K)**;...

[BUG] Desktop Code tab: sessions waiting for my input no longer show the yellow circle in the sidebar (macOS)

### What's wrong? In the Code tab sidebar, a session that is waiting for my feedback (a question, a decision or a permission prompt) no longer shows the yellow circle. Before the recent sidebar redesign, yellow was the one signal that told me a session was blocked on me. Now I...

Desktop app: setting to let start_session start nested child sessions with no Allow dialog and on automated turns

## Feature request **Desktop app (Code tab): a per-user "trusted sessions" setting that lets `mcp__ccd_session__start_session` / `hand_off_to_session` start a nested child session with no "Allow Claude to start the session?" dialog, and allows the call on automated turns.** ###...

[BUG] Desktop Code tab: wrap_up question box shows no context, and it overrides a user CLAUDE.md rule that requires context

## Environment - Claude Desktop for Windows, Code tab, local session - Model claude-opus-5-5 - Windows 11 Related: #102132 (same root cause). This report adds a case where a user CLAUDE.md rule against it is ignored. ## What happens The next-step box (`wrap_up` with `ask` +...

[BUG] Claude Desktop on MAC OS timing out MCP calls after 60 seconds

...MCP tool execution after 60 seconds, and apparently there is no working solution to this annoying problem that has not been dealt with yet. This is the error I receive: "Device did not respond within 60s. This call was sent to the user's computer and only the wait for its reply...

Desktop app: sidebar Routines section hidden and resets to hidden on every launch; routine runs not visible in sidebar

...anywhere in the sidebar. The built-in **Routines** sidebar section is hidden, and I can't find any control in the app to show it again. - Right-clicking a sidebar section only offers New session / New section / Rename section / Select all / Collapse all / Expand all / Archive...

[BUG] Desktop app dictation stays on 'Listening…' with no live text on one Windows PC; full text only appears after stop

## Summary On one Windows PC, the Claude desktop app's built-in dictation (mic button) stays on "聞き取り中…" ("Listening…") the whole time I speak. No partial text appears while speaking. When I press the button to stop, the full transcript is inserted at once. Until about 09:25...

[FEATURE] Desktop app: multi-select to delete or archive multiple sessions at once

### Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched [existing requests](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3Aenhancement) and this feature hasn't been requested yet - [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features) ### Problem Statement...

[FEATURE] Desktop app: Favorites section in the folder picker (pin, custom order, custom display names)

...at app level (not only per session), with $.store available to persist the list Current workaround: none inside the app. I'd have to keep a separate list of paths and use "Open folder..." each time, which defeats the purpose of the picker. ### Priority Medium - Would be very...

[FEATURE] Desktop sidebar: option to show forks as top-level sessions instead of nested under the parent

### Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched [existing requests](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3Aenhancement) and this feature hasn't been requested yet - [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features) ### Problem Statement...

Feature request: serve same-origin ZIP archives for Claude Desktop marketplace plugins

...but installation dead-ends when a skill or MCP plugin points to a Git source; the workaround is to keep using a separate GitHub marketplace. 1. The user configures Claude Desktop's Plugins → Add marketplace view with `https://litellm.example.com/claude-code/marketplace.json` and...

Feature request: serve same-origin ZIP archives for Claude Desktop marketplace plugins

...but installation dead-ends when a skill or MCP plugin points to a Git source; the workaround is to keep using a separate GitHub marketplace. 1. The user configures Claude Desktop's Plugins → Add marketplace view with `https://litellm.example.com/claude-code/marketplace.json` and...

[FEATURE] Desktop: assign folders to custom sidebar groups so new sessions are filed automatically

...groups** works at the session level. A group contains sessions, not folders, so there is no way to say "everything from this folder goes to group X". Every session, including each new one, has to be moved by hand (right-click → Move to group). With several new sessions a day, I...

[Desktop] Bring back the animated Claude spark as the "working" indicator (or make it configurable)

In a recent Claude Desktop update (Code tab), the animated orange Claude spark / "blob" that showed while Claude was working was replaced with a dot indicator. It's 4 dots in a square while running a tool (e.g. `Running python3 35s`) and 3 dots in a row while searching the web....

Desktop app: option to make Enter insert a newline and submit only via click / Ctrl+Enter

## Feature request In the Claude desktop app (Code tab), pressing Enter in the chat composer submits the message. Users who type longer, multi-paragraph prompts frequently submit unfinished messages by accident. ### Requested behavior A setting (or support for...

Claude Desktop 3p + custom gateway (`ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`): sandbox network pinned to gateway + api.anthropic.com, `sandbox.network.allowedDomains` ignored even after full app restart

## Environment - Claude Desktop (enterprise 3p deployment, `deploymentMode: "3p"`), macOS (Apple Silicon), app **1.24012.1** - Embedded Claude Code: **2.1.236** (second machine: 2.1.270), `claude-desktop-3p` entrypoint - Inference: custom gateway via...

[BUG] Claude Desktop (Code tab) auto-denies CLI-native SendMessage, breaking subagent resumption; the desktop replacement only covers session-to-session

### Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet - [x] This is a single bug report - [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code ### What's Wrong? Claude Desktop for macOS **1.46388.1** auto-denies the CLI-native `SendMessage`...