Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page

Anthropic incident: Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5

Resolved after 18 m (6 Oct 2026, 12:24–12:43 UTC), impact major, affecting Claude Cowork, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), claude.ai and Claude Code.

Timeline

1. 6 Oct 2026 at 12:24 UTC investigating

   We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5.5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

2. 6 Oct 2026 at 12:37 UTC identified

   We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5.5 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

3. 6 Oct 2026 at 12:43 UTC resolved

   The issue affecting Claude Opus 5.5 has been resolved.

Affected components

• Claude Cowork: partial outage for 18 m
• Claude API (api.anthropic.com): partial outage for 18 m
• claude.ai: partial outage for 18 m
• Claude Code: partial outage for 18 m

What the crowd did

• 0 clicks, 3 zombies at their worst, 1 breaches, over 19 m — the siege in full

That is this site's own record of the crowd at Anthropic's gate, not anything Anthropic published.

Source

Anthropic's own report of this incident, on Anthropic's status page. This page is a record of Anthropic's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 30 Oct 2026 at 16:25 UTC.

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