Intermittent errors in skills-related functionality

lowAnthropicClaude APIFeb 17, 2026 20:15Duration: 159h 36m

compute

Capacity Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Feb 17, 2026 20:15

[investigating] We are seeing periods of high error rates in a skills-related service used by claude.ai, Claude Desktop app, and our API.

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+4h 15m

Feb 18, 2026 00:30

[investigating] We are continuing to investigate this issue.

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+118h 15m

Feb 22, 2026 22:45

[identified] The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

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+37h 7m

Feb 24, 2026 11:51

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Anthropic has experienced 168 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to compute have occurred 118 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Capacity Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.