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Claude Code usage driven by long sessions, not sub-agents

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A developer analyzed their usage of Claude Code, finding that the majority of their high-cost, large-context calls originated from long-running main sessions rather than sub-agent calls. These main sessions, which sometimes exceeded 400,000 tokens, accounted for a significant portion of their spending, with cache reads being a major cost factor. The developer plans to mitigate future costs by saving notes and starting fresh sessions after breaks, rather than re-caching large amounts of text. AI

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Claude Code usage driven by long sessions, not sub-agents

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Michael Williams ·

    Every one of my 400k+ Claude Code calls came from a long main session

    <p>Under my last post <a class="mentioned-user" href="https://dev.to/junfengzhou01">@junfengzhou01</a> asked whether my 400k+ context calls came from long sessions or from sub-agents reading big files, and I didn't know. It's the sessions. I split the same local logs into main se…

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