Anthropic: Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic reported a major incident involving elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1 across claude.ai, Claude API - api.anthropic.com, Claude Code and Claude Cowork, starting 2026-10-25 08:17 UTC. It remained open when archived (open for 0 min at the last update); Anthropic said it identified the cause and was working on a fix, without detailing either.
Machine-written from the archived incident (Sol). Check the timeline before relying on it.
Affected components: claude.aiClaude API - api.anthropic.comClaude CodeClaude Cowork
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5.1. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified
We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5.1 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- monitoring
A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting Claude services and we are monitoring for recovery.
- resolved
The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 01:08 PT / 08:08 UTC to 01:29 PT / 08:29 UTC.
Changes Rewindex caught on this incident
- Major incident: Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1
- Incident updated: Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1
- Incident updated: Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1
Archive proof
Rewindex commits each version of an incident it captures to a daily checkpoint, chains it to the day before, and has the checkpoint timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert. That proves these records existed by then and have not been changed since, by anyone, Rewindex included.
How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
First version captured
In the 2026-10-25 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
e53f2c3f6dd882d4…Version 2 captured
In the 2026-10-25 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
1dc06706b6ed5593…Version 3 captured
In the 2026-10-25 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
fe3acf8df4eb54fb…
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on status.claude.com (opens in new tab).