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Sub-agents respawn at 100k token budget
“If this is an intended experiment, 100k is far below what real codebases need; if it is a rollout mistake, please check the gating.”
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/3876/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
Sub-agents stop at 100k token budget and respawn endlessly. Server-gated since 2.1.290, a <total_tokens> countdown is added to sub-agents; enabled only for some accounts and main models.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- Agent tool
- Error text
Each agent you launch has a budget of 100,000 tokens. The budget does not count the context the agent starts with: its system prompt, its tools, and your prompt to it.- Versions
- 2.1.290 to 2.1.291
- Platforms
- Linux
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