Claude Opus stopped mid-output at a 21000-token ceiling
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Claude Opus (claude-opus-4-8) stopped mid-output during a script repair call and raised a RuntimeError. The error message was explicit: the response hit the 21000-token max_tokens budget, and the model was cut off, not rejected for content. The failure surfaced inside orqestra.kids_episode, task id…
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- 2026-09-25 10:00 · DEV Community — AI
Claude Opus stopped mid-output at a 21000-token ceiling