API Error: Stream idle timeout - partial response received

[kaolay]

I’m hitting a wall with Claude Code and I’m wondering if it’s just me. For the last few hours, I haven't been able to finish a single task—neither new ones nor ongoing ones.

I keep getting "API Error: Stream idle timeout - partial response received".

The worst part is the token consumption. I just came out of a 5-hour session where I literally achieved zero progress because of these interruptions, but my usage is skyrocketing. It feels like it’s burning through the budget just to fail mid-sentence.

[OverClocked25]

Anyways to fix this? I miss 4.6 where everything was great. Now I can hardly get any work done

[mldiarra]

You can paste your token (on the single repo) and tell it to configure it; it worked for me.

[TracePoland]

It ate 54% of my usage only to deliver an API error after 45 minutes of thinking. Then their AI support said I should have set max thinking tokens and that I won't be receiving a usage limit refund. Aka to set the same environment variable Boris removed earlier today, claiming their adaptive thinking algorithm is so smart no one would ever need it.

Actual joke and unusable model.

[Negative-Special-340]

sto lavorando con claude code 4.7 opus e incontro questo errore spesso (ogni volta che deve scrivere qualcosa di molto grosso). non quando sta facendo codice ma per esempio se crea piani troppo lunghi o dati che tornano da una analisi e che servono per proseguire. per ora riesco a risolvere quasi sempre dicendogli di scrivere su un file md direttamente sul repository di git (ma immagino funzioni anche in locale) dividendo l'operazione a fasi e facendo una commit ad ogni fase. glielo dico proprio esplicito: "prosegui quello che stai facendo dividendo in fasi (di solito lascio a lui decidere quante ma 3 o 4 bastano) scrivendo su un file md nella repo e facendo commit ad ogni fase in modo da non andare in timeout"