One prompt burned 88% of weekly quota: Astra user hits a sub-agent usage drain
NanoIsAMeme · reddit · 2026-09-10
An OpenAI Astra user reports his weekly quota plunged from 93% remaining to 5% after a single prompt. He uses Astra high for planning specs and Astra low for implementation, and had explicitly banned sub-agents in his agents.md to avoid usage drain. But when he asked the model to review an open-source project called Omniagent in a concurrent session, usage instantly dropped 80%. The takeaway: asking models to analyze agent-type projects can silently trigger heavy sub-agent fan-out, even against explicit configuration.
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