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> What really burns tokens is sub agents. I once gave Claude Code a pretty big task, and it immediately launched 7 sub agents which burned through my budget bef
by ValentineC 3mo ago
> What really burns tokens is sub agents. I once gave Claude Code a pretty big task, and it immediately launched 7 sub agents which burned through my budget before even one of them was finished. Tried again 5 hours later: same result.
Probably because the general purpose subagents inherit the parent model.
I tell Claude explicitly to use Explore subagents, which use Haiku only, now.
- CjHuber 3mo ago> Probably because the general purpose subagents inherit the parent model only if you don't specify which model should be used
- killix 3mo ago[flagged]
- joshcartme 3mo agoThey changed it with the release on July 1 Explore now inherits the model, it isn't always haiku. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog#2-1-198 https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog#2-1-198 > The built-in Explore agent now inherits the main session’s model (capped at opus) instead of running on haiku
- ValentineC 3mo agoUrgh, thanks for the heads up. I guess I need to be explicit about my choice of model now.
- joshcartme 3mo agoYeah, I was surprised. I had Claude make a skill to extract the explore agent from Claude Code, but set the model back to haiku. Here it is if it's helpful: https://gist.github.com/joshcartme/dd71df7b4c51c356760b28d7f383dff2 https://gist.github.com/joshcartme/dd71df7b4c51c356760b28d7f...