Anthropic traces Claude Code quality complaints to three product changes
Original titleAn update on recent Claude Code quality reports
AISummary
Anthropic says three changes to Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork caused recent quality complaints, and the API was not affected. The fixes were resolved by April 20 (v2.1.116), and the company is resetting usage limits for all subscribers as of April 23.
AIWhy it matters
The postmortem traces three separate changes to specific dates and versions, showing how a bug in context management can look like broad degradation to users.
Source: Anthropic Engineering · anthropic.com