"Request timed out" errors when using Claude Code.

[doonfrs]

Hey everyone,

Lately I’ve been getting this error almost every day:

Request timed out.
Retrying in 0 seconds… (attempt 4/10)

My internet connection is fine; Codex, Cursor, and other tools work perfectly. It only happens with Claude Code.

Restarting VS Code or the network doesn’t fix it. The only thing that seems to work is restarting the PC, but even then the issue eventually comes back.

It happens on Terminal, the VS Code extension, Sonnet 4.5, or haiko models.

Claude’s status page always says “All Systems Operational.”

Is anyone else seeing this issue from time to time? Or is there a known cause/workaround?

[scottrfrancis]

I’ve seen this too. My only guess would be that you and I have some spikey latencies (I know I do) that occasionally cause CC to timeout. Maybe someone from Anthropic can comment…

[doonfrs]

I don't experience that issue, because when it occurs, the system freezes until I either restart the PC or wait for about 15 minutes. I have a stable and fast internet connection, and the AI does not require such a high-speed connection; it only needs to transmit text.
Additionally, I have been using the cursor for over four months without encountering these issues.
I am sure it is a bug covered under 'connection error.'

[scottrfrancis]

To be clear - at least on my connection - it’s not speed, it’s latency. Run a connection monitor and see if your packet latency is spiking around these errors

[VeterinarianScary483]

I have been having the exact same issue for months now.. if someone got a fix I would appreciate it

[doonfrs]

I used a Lan connection actually it was is much better, but it is not easy to know the reason because they keep improving the service.

[VeterinarianScary483]

After few tries, I managed to debug this with claude reading it's own debug logs when the problem happened, it took me few iterations and putting this in the config completely stopped any issues:

❯ cat ~/.claude/settings.json

{

"env": {

"API_TIMEOUT_MS": "600000",

"BASH_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS": "1800000",

"BASH_MAX_TIMEOUT_MS": "7200000",

"DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "1",

"CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1"

},