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Oct 6, 2026, 9:32 PM EDT
GitHub Actions Degraded for Four Hours: 47% of Workflow Runs Failed at Peak
GitHub's initial report quantifies a four-hour Actions and hosted-runner outage: at peak, 47% of hosted-runner workflow runs failed and 71.9% of hosted jobs missed the five-minute start mark.
Oct 6, 2026, 8:28 PM EDT
Claude Code 2.1.290 Adds Advisor Data and Clearer Plugin Hook Validation
Claude Code v2.1.290 adds advisor tool records, identifies subagent permission checks, exposes required-approval metadata, and reports gating hooks with .catch handlers.
Oct 6, 2026, 6:50 PM EDT
Claude Code v2.1.292 Adds Sub-Agent Effort Control, Mod Autocomplete, and One-Step Marketplace Installs
Anthropic ships Claude Code v2.1.292 with per-sub-agent effort budgets, a prompt.autocomplete hook for mods and plugins, --marketplace flag on plugin install, prompt caching for mods, workflow agent visibility in hooks, and critical security fixes for sandbox escapes and UNC path bypasses.

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Original diagram of the October 5, 2026 GitHub Actions hosted-runner outage: cause, impact and recovery boxes above a corrected UTC timeline running from 18:48 degradation through 21:32 mitigations, 21:54 Actions recovery and 22:49 full recovery, with peak and full-incident failure percentages.

October 6, 2026

GitHub Actions Degraded for Four Hours: 47% of Workflow Runs Failed at Peak

GitHub's initial report quantifies a four-hour Actions and hosted-runner outage: at peak, 47% of hosted-runner workflow runs failed and 71.9% of hosted jobs missed the five-minute start mark.

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