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Checks Anthropic API, Claude services status, active incidents, recent issues, and community reports from status.anthropic.com. Useful for diagnosing slowdowns or outages.
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Check the current status of Anthropic's API and Claude services. Useful when experiencing slowdowns to determine if the issue is on Anthropic's end.
Executes incident response for Anthropic Claude API outages, errors, rate limits, and latency with triage scripts, status checks, and mitigation steps.
Runs Claude Code performance diagnostics: analyzes ~/.claude storage usage across folders, API status, GitHub issues, and version.
Diagnoses performance bottlenecks in Claude Code and the local system by measuring CPU, RAM, disk, and API latency. Generates health reports and suggests corrective actions.
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Check the current status of Anthropic's API and Claude services. Useful when experiencing slowdowns to determine if the issue is on Anthropic's end.
/check-api-status
Use WebFetch to retrieve status.anthropic.com:
Fetch https://status.anthropic.com and extract:
- Current overall status
- Individual service statuses (API, Console, Claude.ai)
- Active incidents
- Recent resolved incidents
Use perplexity to search for recent reports:
Search: "Anthropic Claude API slow outage December 2025"
Anthropic API Status
====================
Checked: {timestamp}
Overall Status: {OPERATIONAL | DEGRADED | OUTAGE}
Services:
API: {status}
Console: {status}
Claude.ai: {status}
Claude Code: {status}
Active Incidents:
{if any - title, start time, current status}
Recent Incidents (last 7 days):
{date}: {incident title} - {RESOLVED | MONITORING}
Community Reports:
{if found - recent reports of issues}
Interpretation:
{guidance based on findings}
Anthropic API Status
====================
Checked: 2025-12-26 15:45:00 EST
Overall Status: OPERATIONAL
Services:
API: Operational
Console: Operational
Claude.ai: Operational
Claude Code: Operational
Active Incidents: None
Recent Incidents (last 7 days):
Dec 21: API Performance Degradation - RESOLVED
Duration: 2 hours
Impact: Increased latency for some requests
Community Reports: No widespread issues reported
Interpretation:
All systems operational. If you're experiencing slowdowns,
the issue is likely local. Try:
- /check-claude-storage for storage bloat
- /cleanup-sessions 7 to free space
- Restart Claude Code
Anthropic API Status
====================
Checked: 2025-12-26 15:45:00 EST
Overall Status: DEGRADED PERFORMANCE
Services:
API: Degraded
Console: Operational
Claude.ai: Degraded
Claude Code: Degraded
Active Incidents:
Title: Increased API Latency
Started: 2025-12-26 14:00 UTC
Status: Investigating
Description: Some users experiencing slower response times
Recent Incidents (last 7 days):
Dec 21: API Performance Degradation - RESOLVED
Community Reports:
Multiple reports on social media of slow responses
Interpretation:
There is a known issue affecting Claude services.
Anthropic is investigating. Consider:
- Waiting for resolution
- Reducing request frequency
- Using simpler prompts
/diagnose-performance instead