Anthropic's brief overage-continuation policy causes subagent start-stop loops
willcb · x · 2026-10-10
willcb elaborates that the "three times" behavior comes from Anthropic's policy of allowing only a brief continuation after overage — convenient for primary agents but producing weird start-stop loops for subagents. This is a follow-up to the same thread; the core explanation is in the earlier post.
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