April 6, 2026
All green, all down
Claude Code Down
Logins broken, status says “all good,” and the comments are roasting
TLDR: Claude Code had login failures while its status page showed green, sparking jokes and frustration. A scathing post claimed the company’s own tools lag behind their hype, splitting commenters between “temporary hiccup” optimists and “fix the fundamentals” skeptics, with many already hunting for alternatives.
Claude Code users spent the day smashing refresh as logins failed and the status page still glowed green. “OAuth is failing, I can’t login,” groaned one user, while another chimed in: “Still down for me—and still nothing on the status page.” Folks in London said both Code and Chat were wobbling, yet the dashboard insisted everything was fine. Cue the memes: “Green means go… home.”
Then the bigger bombshell: a scorching post claimed the company’s own tools are messy under the hood—thousands of open repo issues, and even MCP (think: their own house rules for how tools talk) allegedly not fully implemented in Claude Code or Codex. Critics called it “hype over homework”—flashy demos of super-agents and “kernel compilers,” while basics like prompts, resources, and, uh, logging in stumble.
The thread split fast. Optimists urged patience—“just growing pains.” Cynics said it’s the GitHub outage era all over again. Meanwhile, pragmatists asked the question of the hour: “What are the best alternatives right now?” Between jokes about “unlimited tokens can’t fix OAuth” and speculation about whether agent swarms can debug their own login page, one thing was clear: the tech may be cutting-edge, but the vibe today was paperclip-maximizer meets spinning beachball.
Key Points
- •The author evaluated Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations while working with the spec.
- •They report that Claude Code and Codex CLI have incomplete or incorrect MCP implementations.
- •The author states the Claude Code repository had over 5,000 open issues at the time of review.
- •Skimming those issues, the author notes many reference regressions, bugs, and simple changes.
- •The author cites that Codex lacks support for MCP prompts and resources.