> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://ai-news.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Claude went down twice in two days — 529s across Claude.ai, the API, and Claude Code - URL: https://ai-news.ghost.io/claude-down-twice-in-two-days/ - Published: 2026-07-30T14:11:35.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-07T06:05:05.000Z - Description: Two Claude outages in 24 hours and a third incident after; Kimi K3 runs at home at ~4 tok/s; GitHub Models dies today; Copilot review calls your own tools. - Author: The New Way Claude went down twice in two days — every model returning "529 Overloaded" across Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork: roughly three hours Wednesday evening, then almost five more this morning, with a third, smaller incident opened just after. Kimi K3's open weights are now actually running on home hardware — independent reports, real numbers, about 4 tokens a second. GitHub's free model playground, GitHub Models, shuts down for good today after a month of warnings. And GitHub's Copilot code review can now call a repo's own tools and pull live context from MCP servers. The daily pulse of AI coding tools — what shipped, what matters, what's next. 📌 ****In this issue** • [Claude went down twice in two days — a third incident followed](https://ai-news.ghost.io/claude-down-twice-in-two-days/#claude-went-down-twice-in-two-days-%E2%80%94-529s-across-claudeai-the-api-and-claude-code) • [Kimi K3 runs at home — \~4 tokens/sec, independent reports](https://ai-news.ghost.io/claude-down-twice-in-two-days/#kimi-k3-runs-at-home-%E2%80%94-first-independent-reports-4-tokenssec-on-a-594gb-build) • [GitHub Models shuts down for good today](https://ai-news.ghost.io/claude-down-twice-in-two-days/#github-models-%E2%80%94-the-free-multi-model-playground-%E2%80%94-shuts-down-for-good-today) • [Copilot code review now calls your team's own tools](https://ai-news.ghost.io/claude-down-twice-in-two-days/#copilot-code-review-can-now-call-your-teams-own-tools-%E2%80%94-agent-skills-and-mcp-go-ga) --- ## When the tools go down ### Claude went down twice in two days — 529s across Claude.ai, the API, and Claude Code Anthropic's status feed logged **two full outages in under 24 hours**: Wednesday 19:49–22:36 UTC (\~2h47m) and this morning 05:57–10:48 UTC — **\~4h51m, longer than the first** — both hitting the same four surfaces (claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork), with every model returning `529 Overloaded` instead of finishing requests. A third, smaller incident — degraded Opus 4.8 performance — opened at 13:43 UTC and was still open as we published. Anthropic hasn't said what caused any of them. **If you were running a long Claude Code session either afternoon, you hit a dead session with no checkpoint — a different failure than a rate limit, and the thing every team's Slack was talking about.** [Elevated errors across many modelsClaude’s Status Page - Elevated errors across many models.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/1f/9c1ff71c-2859-44c2-a962-1337982a6484/content/images/icon/NEW_spark-96-96-2225c423-f16f-42a4-b9d1-c58c10b998cb-3f1db0b9-9783-4974-a424-f4a092d007a2.png)Elevated errors across many models![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/1f/9c1ff71c-2859-44c2-a962-1337982a6484/content/images/thumbnail/favicon-2b86ed00cfa6258307d4a3d0c482fd733c7973f82de213143b24fc062c540367-0a9884d1-9cb3-409b-8774-8919afea7a79.png)](https://stspg.io/c0fmy7628y3w?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) All three incidents: [Wed 07-29](https://stspg.io/p7pqqb00414c?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) · [Thu morning 07-30](https://stspg.io/c0fmy7628y3w?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) · [Thu 13:43 UTC (Opus 4.8)](https://stspg.io/6qltqbknbcmn?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) · Discussion: [Hacker News (265 points, 246 comments)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102150&ref=ai-news.ghost.io). --- ## The open-weights story grows hands ### Kimi K3 runs at home — first independent reports: \~4 tokens/sec on a 594GB build Two days after Unsloth started publishing compressed builds of Kimi K3's open weights (1.56TB shrunk to **594GB**), r/LocalLLaMA's top threads are no longer the authors' — they're run reports: a home-lab setup pushing roughly **4 tokens/sec**, with hardware specs, quant choices, and failure modes in the comments. **The practical read: K3 at home is real but marginal — interactive-assistant speed, not coding-agent speed, and the floor is still a workstation, not a laptop.** > [First Kimi K3 results on home lab \~ 4t/s](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1va0rce/first%5Fkimi%5Fk3%5Fresults%5Fon%5Fhome%5Flab%5F4ts/?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) > by [u/iVoider](https://www.reddit.com/user/iVoider/?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) in [LocalLLaMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) The compression thread: [Kimi K3 for local use (1.56TB → 594GB) by Unsloth](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1va6ot2/kimi%5Fk3%5Ffor%5Flocal%5Fuse%5F156tb%5F594gb%5Fcompressed%5Fand/?ref=ai-news.ghost.io). --- ## Deadlines and defaults that moved ### GitHub Models — the free multi-model playground — shuts down for good today The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring-your-own-key endpoints all stop working today — the last step of a retirement GitHub announced July 1 and rehearsed with two scheduled brownouts (July 16 and 23). GitHub's advice: move model experimentation to Microsoft Foundry, and route AI workflows through Copilot instead. **If your team used GitHub Models to prototype against multiple providers without standing up separate cloud accounts, that path closes today.** [GitHub Models is being fully retired on July 30, 2026 - GitHub ChangelogIn June, we announced that we are retiring GitHub Models and closed it to new customers. We’re now sharing the timeline for the next step: GitHub Models will be fully…![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/1f/9c1ff71c-2859-44c2-a962-1337982a6484/content/images/icon/cropped-github-favicon-512-5035f79b-94a8-4fac-8e22-d97c11fbe3f2.png)The GitHub BlogAllison![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/1f/9c1ff71c-2859-44c2-a962-1337982a6484/content/images/thumbnail/ce03ad363f6ab003243e7f5bf11f382bc37de5f49ae5d6ab6beca6a309228220-2400x1260-1-a853bf73-1a0d-46e0-b87a-9427f6ed3c91.jpeg)](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-github-models-is-being-fully-retired-on-july-30-2026/?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) --- ### Copilot code review can now call your team's own tools — agent skills and MCP go GA Copilot code review can now invoke a repository's own `SKILL.md`\-defined tools (under `.github/skills`) and pull live context from MCP servers — issue trackers, docs, service catalogs — while reviewing a PR. Generally available as of yesterday for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise, and review comments now say when a skill or an MCP server produced them. **It's the same MCP that went stateless this week showing up as a concrete feature a day later: review comments built from your team's actual runbook instead of generic pattern-matching.** [Copilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available - GitHub ChangelogCopilot code review support for agent skills and MCP servers is now generally available for all Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. Previously announced in public preview, these capabilities…![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/1f/9c1ff71c-2859-44c2-a962-1337982a6484/content/images/icon/cropped-github-favicon-512-68e49f21-1a0b-4939-a039-de3e994f2abf.png)The GitHub BlogAllison![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/1f/9c1ff71c-2859-44c2-a962-1337982a6484/content/images/thumbnail/628686521-4a942fe5-24fd-460d-9a84-48d97625dc0c-ba091890-002d-4ea5-ba11-ded70b8ead9a.jpg)](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-29-copilot-code-review-agent-skills-and-mcp-now-generally-available/?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) --- That's Thursday. If the outages cost you an afternoon, reply and tell us what your fallback was — that's next week's story. And if someone forwarded you this, [subscribe here](https://ai-news.ghost.io/#/portal/signup). ## Also worth your time [Claude's connectors now speak the new MCP spec](https://claude.com/blog/bringing-mcp-2026-07-28-to-claude?ref=ai-news.ghost.io) — the 950+ connector directory supports the 2026-07-28 stateless spec end-to-end: embedded UI, enterprise-managed auth, observability, and private-network tunnels (research preview). The spec change we led with yesterday, landing in the product a day later. [Show HN: a local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104747&ref=ai-news.ghost.io) — sequential commit processing with full testing, born of running 4–5 agents on an 8GB MacBook Air at \~90 commits a day. ([repo](https://github.com/funador/claude-code-merge-queue?ref=ai-news.ghost.io)) [A tmux TUI for running Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode side by side](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107749&ref=ai-news.ghost.io) — the thread's own framing is the story: a "Cambrian explosion" of small tools for coordinating parallel agents. ([repo](https://github.com/YoanWai/agent-manager?ref=ai-news.ghost.io)) --- *The New Way is human-curated — a person picks every story. The summaries are written with AI (Claude) and reviewed before we hit send.*