[BUG] Consulting Fable advisor fails, often and repeatedly wasting my time and patience

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

⏺ Advising using Opus 4.8

⏺ API Error: Response stalled mid-stream. The response above may be incomplete.

✻ Churned for 10m 9s

❯ retry

Consulting Fable on the fork:

⏺ Advising using Opus 4.8

⏺ API Error: Response stalled mid-stream. The response above may be incomplete.

✻ Crunched for 5m 2s

What Should Happen?

This happens daily, repeatedly, and is very soon to be the cause of my cancelling my subscriptions and switching to Codex.

Do you not think peoples time is valuable? 10 minutes talking to your model and "hurr durr" you drop the connection?

Error Messages/Logs

⏺ Advising using Opus 4.8

⏺ API Error: Response stalled mid-stream. The response above may be incomplete.

✻ Churned for 10m 9s

❯ retry

Consulting Fable on the fork:

⏺ Advising using Opus 4.8

⏺ API Error: Response stalled mid-stream. The response above may be incomplete.

✻ Crunched for 5m 2s

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use the tool
2. Watch the tool call the advisor
3. Watch the advisor fail
4. Ask the model to retry

[repeats]

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.207 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

_No response_