windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor

windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor is a skill for Claude Code from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (3,819 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for Windows App connections from macOS to Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, remote PCs, and related Microsoft remote-desktop services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for diagnosing stuck connection dialogs, Shortpath failures, transport selection, VPN or proxy problems, and direct remote-PC reachability.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether a connection is using a fast UDP path or falling back to slower TCP or WebSocket transport, and whether VPNs or proxies interfere.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for diagnosing stuck connection dialogs, Shortpath failures, transport selection, VPN or proxy problems, and direct remote-PC reachability.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor
About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,385 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor/plugin install windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,819 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 16 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00133 $0.03819
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01910
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00764
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00382

Measured 7d ago against content hash e64c38dd5573, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/probe_rdp_server.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

NO_PROXY="<local-ip>" curl -s --connect-timeout 5 "http://<local-ip>:8080/api/read"
windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Windows Remote Desktop Connection Doctor

Diagnose and fix Windows App (Microsoft Remote Desktop / AVD / WVD / W365 / direct PC) connection issues on macOS, with focus on transport protocol optimization and root-cause falsification.

Methodology base: the general evidence-driven diagnosis discipline lives in the debugging-network-issues skill. This skill is the Windows-App / AVD transport domain layer — it leans toward connection-quality optimization more than root-cause falsification, so the methodology overlap is lighter.

Background

Azure Virtual Desktop transport priority: UDP Shortpath > TCP > WebSocket. UDP Shortpath provides the best experience (lowest latency, supports UDP Multicast). When it fails, the client falls back to WebSocket over TCP 443 through the gateway, adding significant latency overhead.

Direct PC connections use plain RDP over TCP 3389 (usually TLS-wrapped). They have no Connection Info panel, no gateway reachability tests, and no transport optimization step. For direct PC, the dominant failure modes are:

  1. The remote PC is off or unreachable (network/firewall).
  2. The Windows App client has a stale or expired Microsoft work/school account that poisons the auth orchestration, leaving the connection stuck at "Configuring remote PC...".
  3. The remote PC rebooted (often Windows Update), and the client cannot recover cleanly.

This skill handles both scenarios.

Diagnostic Workflow

Step 1: Determine the Connection Type and Symptom

Before collecting evidence, identify which scenario you are diagnosing:

Scenario Key Characteristic Primary Evidence Source
AVD/WVD/W365 User connects to a cloud desktop through a workspace/gateway Connection Info panel, gateway health checks, UDP Shortpath logs
Direct PC User connects to a named PC by hostname or IP (e.g., a home workstation) RDP protocol probe, Windows App log auth chain, Windows-side reboot events

For AVD/WVD/W365, ask the user to provide the Connection Info from Windows App (click the signal icon in the toolbar). Key fields to extract:

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 311 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A e64c38dd5573

Subscribe to this mod's changes

windows-remote-desktop-connection-doctor is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,385 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 3,819 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

debug-optimize-lcp

Guides debugging and optimizing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) using Chrome DevTools MCP tools. Use this skill whenever the user asks about LCP performance, slow page loads, Core Web Vitals optimization, or wants to understand why their page's main content takes too long to appear. Also use when the user mentions…

ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp · 99 tokens

systematic-debugging

Use when debugging a failing test, build error, or runtime issue that isn't immediately obvious. Guides a 4-phase root cause analysis instead of random fix attempts.

open-metadata/OpenMetadata · 37 tokens

diagnose

Trace from a reproduced symptom to the source code that causes it. Pin the specific file and approximate line, rate confidence in the cause and clarity of the fix independently, and always propose a concrete fix.

emdash-cms/emdash · 43 tokens

repro-admin

Reproduce an EmDash admin UI bug. Attach a container, start the demo dev server, drive the admin with agent-browser using the dev-bypass session, and capture the reproduction as screenshots plus a replayable transcript.

emdash-cms/emdash · 48 tokens

log-error-digest

Analyze log files to troubleshoot errors, identify peak error periods, and produce error clustering, frequency statistics, and time distribution reports. Supports JSON, syslog, and Nginx formats with automatic detection. Use when a user uploads a .log file and asks to analyze errors, find patterns, debug issues, or…

zebbern/claude-code-guide · 71 tokens

byted-util-volcengine-detect-retry

An orchestration workflow for Volcengine Cloud Detect, a service that checks websites or network endpoints from test locations.

bytedance/agentkit-samples · 101 tokens