One Prompt Spawns 9 Sub-Agents That Burn Through a Claude Team 5-Hour Limit in 5 Minutes

BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-03

LukasHozda shared a greentext-style tale: after sending a single prompt to Fable 5.1, the tool spawned 9 sub-agents and blew through the entire 5-hour limit of a Claude Team plan in 5 minutes — without producing an answer.

A vivid example of how multi-agent orchestration can torch token quotas instantly, with strong shareability in the AI community.

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