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Claude Fable 5.1 spawns 126 agents, consuming millions of tokens

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A user on the ClaudeAI subreddit reported an issue with Claude Fable 5.1 where a simple localization audit of five files unexpectedly spawned 126 agents, consuming approximately 8.4 million tokens across two separate runs. This usage significantly depleted the user's $100/month Max plan allowance. The user suspects a deterministic bug in the agent orchestration rather than just high token usage, especially since the exact same number of agents appeared twice. The user also experienced difficulties with Anthropic's AI support agent, Fin, before eventually being escalated to human support for a reproducible product defect. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential inefficiencies and high token consumption in agentic workflows, impacting user costs and experience.

RANK_REASON User-reported issue with a specific version of a product, not a general release or research finding.

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Claude Fable 5.1 spawns 126 agents, consuming millions of tokens

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/mertcandanzz ·

    Is Claude Fable 5.1 spawning 126 agents for simple tasks for anyone else? It burned ~8.4M tokens on a 5-file i18n audit!

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