Claude Code spawned 821 agents and burned 50 million tokens on a markdown consistency check
r/ClaudeAI·medium signal
A r/ClaudeAI user asked Claude Code to check their Markdown files for consistency and posted the usage screen showing 821 agents spawned and roughly fifty million tokens consumed in seconds. It is a small thread, 43 upvotes and 30 comments, but it is a clean instance of the failure mode that the same subreddit's cost-optimization threads are trying to engineer around: nothing in the harness capped fan-out on a task whose scope the user assumed was trivial.