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Anthropic: Major incident: Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5

Summary

Claude Opus 5.5 requests experienced elevated errors affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Anthropic rated the impact major; the incident started at 2026-10-06 12:24 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-06 12:43 UTC, lasting 18 min. Anthropic identified the cause but did not disclose it or the fix.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 97%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5
AddedImpact#2
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AddedStatus#3
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AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-10-06 12:24 UTC
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After: 2026-10-06 12:43 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5.5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
AddedUpdateidentified#8
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After: 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.
AddedUpdateresolved#9
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After: The issue affecting Claude Opus 5.5 has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5 (this change)
Claude Opus 5.5 requests experienced elevated errors affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Anthropic rated the impact major; the incident started at 2026-10-06 12:24 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-06 12:43 UTC, lasting 18 min. Anthropic identified the cause but did not disclose it or the fix.
Major incident

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