Claude Is Down (status.claude.com)

Anthropic’s Claude platform is currently experiencing degraded service: Claude.ai, Claude Code, the public API, and the developer console are reported as impaired. The provider’s status interface is inconsistent—some messages show “unresolved incident” and offer email/text subscription for updates and webhook-failure alerts, while other lines claim “no incidents or maintenance”—suggesting either a live outage with status-reporting issues or a status-page glitch. The UI snippets in circulation also show repeated OTP/resend prompts, pointing to broader session/UX disruptions for users trying to access the service. For the AI/ML community this matters because many apps, CI workflows, and developer tools depend on Claude’s API and Code model for inference, code generation, and orchestration. Expect increased latency, failed calls, and console unavailability for any integration that doesn’t handle degraded downstream services. Immediate mitigations: implement exponential backoff and retries, circuit breakers, request queuing, local caching of recent inferences, and fallbacks to alternate models/providers where possible. Operators should subscribe to status updates and webhook alerts, audit error-handling in production clients, and prepare contingency plans (graceful degradation, reduced feature mode) to maintain critical functionality until service is restored.