5 people reported
All time, since Sep 19.
Unrequested multi-agent workflows launch and exhaust usage limits without estimate or conf
“No cost estimate, budget cap, or confirmation before launch.”
Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.
Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.
I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/12903/file Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.
No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends
Claude starts large fan-outs of parallel agents on its own, even for a single-file task, with no cost estimate, budget cap or warning.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- Workflow tool
- Versions
- 2.1.278 to 2.1.295
- Platforms
- macOS
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.
Part of: Unrequested agent fan-outs drain usage5 bugs
- Ultracode overspawns agents5 people
- Subagents spawned despite instructions3 people
- Subagent fan-out exhausts usage limit2 people
- Review process not scaled to risk2 people
Not quite your bug?
- Credits billed despite weekly limit2 people
- Unbounded agent context re-reads3 people
Original reports5, newest first
- Model launches unrequested background subagents despite loaded zero-autonomy rules#104574
- Claude Code used up my usage on a simple task with a 36-agent workflow I didn't ask for#103122
- Claude launched a 137-agent Workflow for a single-file audit, against a standing "no multi-agent" instruction (~53% of weekly usage in 1 hour)#102248
- Workflow tool spawns uncapped sub-agents causing excessive token usage and API costs#95816
- Agent-initiated multi-agent runs exhaust the 5-hour window with no estimate and no warning#95600