Claude Code Burns Through Quota via Infinite Recursion
TheEgilan · reddit · 2026-07-20
A user complains that sub-agents and the code-review plugin in Claude Code trigger endless recursion: the main model initiates a code review, which then calls sub-agents, stacking up layer by layer and incinerating the weekly quota in no time.
They shared specific metrics: a total cost of $171.49, API time of 10 hours 37 mins, wall-clock time of 1 day 5 hours 41 mins, and 2588 lines added, 879 lines deleted. Notably, gpt-5.6-sol consumed the most tokens, with claude-fable-5 taking up the bulk of the rest.
Ultimately, they disabled the code-review plugin, lamenting over the massive token waste.
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