Major incident

Cursor: Elevated errors for Anthropic Models

Affected: Automations, CLI, Cloud Agents, IDE

Current status of Cursor: Operational — live Cursor status

Timeline

1. Sep 3, 2026, 14:17 UTC
   investigating
   An upstream Anthropic issue is causing elevated errors for Fable 5.1, Fable 5, Opus 5, Opus 4.8, and Opus 4.6 requests. Some users may experience errors or failed Agent turns. We're monitoring recovery and will provide updates.
2. Sep 3, 2026, 15:55 UTC
   investigating
   Anthropic reports recovery across most models. The affected models right now are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5. Please see https://status.claude.com/ for provider updates.
3. Sep 3, 2026, 16:31 UTC
   resolved
   Elevated errors affecting Anthropic models have been resolved. Service has been restored.

Updates as published by Cursor (original).