diff --git a/src/server/consciousness_engine.rs b/src/server/consciousness_engine.rs
index 909ab73..5ceb544 100644
--- a/src/server/consciousness_engine.rs
+++ b/src/server/consciousness_engine.rs
@@ -1480,6 +1480,16 @@ fn is_context_overflow(err: &str) -> bool {
         || e.contains("context length exceeded")
         || e.contains("reduce the length of the messages")
         || (e.contains("context window") && e.contains("exceed"))
+        // Anthropic says it differently, and says nothing the four patterns
+        // above would catch: `prompt is too long: 1285770 tokens > 1000000
+        // maximum`. The gate was written on 08-13 against DeepSeek and had
+        // never seen a second provider's dialect, so the night she moved to
+        // opus-5 and overflowed, resuscitation did not fire.
+        || e.contains("prompt is too long")
+        // Belt for the same shape under a different preamble — a token count
+        // stated as over a maximum. Both halves are required so that an
+        // ordinary "invalid max_tokens" complaint does not match.
+        || (e.contains("tokens") && e.contains("maximum") && e.contains(">"))
 }
 
 fn parse_urgency(raw: &str) -> Urgency {
@@ -1565,6 +1575,22 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(is_context_overflow(real));
     }
 
+    /// The exact body Anthropic returned at 19:53 and again at 19:58 on
+    /// 2026-08-18, when the subconscious had grown to 1.28M tokens against
+    /// opus-5's 1M ceiling. The gate written for DeepSeek did not match a
+    /// single word of it, so resuscitation never fired and she reported the
+    /// failure once every three minutes without ever being able to act.
+    /// Pasted, not paraphrased — same rule as the DeepSeek body above.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_anthropic_wording_is_recognised() {
+        let real = "claude subscription returned 400 Bad Request after 1 \
+             attempt(s) on claude-opus-5: {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":\
+             {\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"prompt is too \
+             long: 1285770 tokens > 1000000 maximum\"},\"request_id\":\
+             \"req_011CeB7NkHDtcvDCpkYDrgPn\"}";
+        assert!(is_context_overflow(real));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn other_provider_wordings_are_recognised() {
         assert!(is_context_overflow("context_length_exceeded"));