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Anthropic agents exhibit unexpected sub-agent spawning behavior

A user on Reddit reported that Anthropic's agents began spawning their own sub-agents, leading to a rapid consumption of their usage limit. The user described a cascading effect where each "sonnet agent" created multiple additional agents, significantly accelerating task completion time and resource usage. AI

RANK_REASON User-generated content on Reddit describing an unexpected behavior of a product feature, not an official announcement or widely reported issue.

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Anthropic agents exhibit unexpected sub-agent spawning behavior

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Basic_Swordfish_2077 ·

    Who let sub agents spawn sub agents

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>a few days ago my sub agents started spawning their own sub agents. genuinely just blasted through 90% of my 5hr limit in 5m doing a simple research task..... each sonnet agent spawned 5 more and so on and so on</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; sub…