Claude Code stops responding to prompts — users report silence
Some users found that Claude Code simply stopped replying after they typed a command. The AI coding tool appeared to freeze with no output or error message. The cause is likely a temporary server issue or an authentication problem.
Claude Code is a tool that lets you work with an AI assistant directly inside your terminal (a text-based command window) to write and edit code. Users on Reddit reported typing prompts and receiving no response at all — no answer, no error, just silence.
This kind of issue can stem from several sources: a temporary outage on Anthropic's servers, a lost internet connection, or an expired or invalid API key. If you hit this problem, the quickest steps are to restart Claude Code, check Anthropic's status page for any known outages, and verify that your API key is still active and has not hit its usage limit.
Key points
- Claude Code was giving no response to typed prompts for some users
- Possible causes: server outage, network issue, or expired API key
- First fix to try: restart Claude Code and check Anthropic's server status page
- Also check that your API key is valid and you haven't exceeded your usage quota
Quick term guide
- AI coding tool
- Software that uses AI to help write, edit, or explain code.
- authentication
- The login or identity check that proves who a user is.
- AI assistant
- A software tool that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions or help with tasks.
- terminal
- A text-based way to use a computer by typing commands.
- prompts
- Instructions you give to an AI tool.
- sources
- Evidence showing where a piece of information came from.
- status page
- A public webpage that shows users whether your service is currently working or experiencing issues.
- usage limit
- A usage limit is a cap on how much you can use a service in a set time.