Claude Code Is Down (status.claude.com)

Anthropic’s Claude code-generation API is currently experiencing elevated error rates — effectively a partial outage — and the company is routing incident updates through an opt-in notification system. Developers can subscribe to email and/or SMS alerts to receive status updates when incidents are updated and when Claude opens or resolves an incident, indicating the problem is being tracked but not yet fully contained. This matters because teams that depend on Claude for code completion, automated testing, CI/CD hooks, or product features may see degraded responses, failed calls, or increased latency. Technically, the failure mode is “elevated error rates” on the API rather than a complete blackout, which suggests intermittent server-side errors or overloaded endpoints rather than whole-cluster unavailability. Immediate mitigations for affected engineers: implement exponential backoff and retries, circuit breakers, caching of recent completions, graceful degrade paths, and multi-provider fallbacks or local models for critical flows. Keep monitoring Anthropic’s incident feed (and subscribe to notifications) for root-cause updates and resolution timelines before resuming normal traffic patterns.