Provider errors halt Claude sessions with no auto-retry
Provider errors such as invalid requests and unparseable responses stop sessions with cryptic messages and no automatic continue.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 10 May 2026 · last reported 17 June 2026
What's going wrong
Users of free-claude-code, a tool that lets Claude Code run against third-party model providers, keep hitting sessions that stop dead when the provider returns an invalid request or a response that cannot be parsed.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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