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ToolsJul 29, 2026, 21:29 UTCUpdated Aug 25, 2026

Anthropic resolves major Claude outage

Claude Status says requests to Opus 5, Fable 5 and other Claude models saw elevated errors, but the incident is now resolved.

What changed

Anthropic says the elevated-error incident affecting several Claude models, including Opus 5 and Fable 5, is resolved.

Anthropic says it has resolved elevated errors that affected requests to several Claude models, including Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5. Claude Status says the service recovered after a period of unstable requests across multiple models.

The practical takeaway is that Claude should be usable again, but teams that rely on it for coding workflows, API-backed products or agent systems should treat the incident as another reminder to keep fallback paths in place. Retries, alternate model routing and clear user messaging matter when model calls fail.

This was not a model launch or a security disclosure; it was an availability incident. It matters because Claude is now embedded in more production and internal workflows, so even a short outage can interrupt developer tools, support systems and agentic automation.

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