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Anthropic AI's "verify" skill consumes all tokens on simple tasks

A user reported an issue with Anthropic's AI where a bundled "verify" skill consumed all available tokens. The AI was attempting to install packages to compile and run an entire game for end-to-end tests, which led to it repeatedly failing and retrying until the token limit was reached. This occurred despite the user assigning a simple task that did not require such extensive verification processes. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential issues with AI skill management and resource consumption in complex tasks.

RANK_REASON User report of a bug/unexpected behavior in an AI product.

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Anthropic AI's "verify" skill consumes all tokens on simple tasks

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 Dansk(DA) · /u/ParticularAnt5424 ·

    Bundled "verify" skill consumed all tokens

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am not sure if this is a bug, but it never did it before. I asked a super simple task (add version number to the botton of the screen) and went on playing Doom, next time I checked on it - 100% limit with 10 lines of code changed.</p> <p>Why? I…