GitHub incident: Disruption with Claude Opus 4.7

1. resolvedJun 8, 2026, 10:03 UTC

   On June 8, 2026, between 08:40 UTC and 09:30 UTC, the Claude Opus 4.7 model experienced degraded availability with error rates peaking at 8.4% and averaging 1.9%. This was due to an upstream provider issue that caused temporary unavailability and rate limiting on secondary failover systems. Users selecting Auto or alternative models were unaffected. We are improving provider failover mechanisms and monitoring to prevent similar issues.

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