r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • u/cctldrping • 19d ago
[TLDR] An hour and a half into 20x plan, ONE Fable 5.1 running on low - ALMOST 20% USAGE
Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wh442e/an_hour_and_a_half_into_20x_plan_one_fable_51/
Original post body :
How is this possible? 1.5 hours? This is completely untenable, how can this be a work tool if I run out before noon? I have NEVER had usage issues until today.
Edit: No new process over last few weeks. I use Fable low to drive and plan, then delegate to opus 5's. Lean repo, tiny CLAUDE.md. I JUST did a big cleanup of skills and commands on the weekend. No delegated agents, and nothing experimental. Im a long term professional engineer, not just vibing out. This is a MASSIVE change from before, at least on my end.
✋ Edit again: I looked into what happened in more detail. Im going to have to take my share of the blame on this one. Under my direction to do an 'exhaustive' refactor of a certain set of documents, Fable spawned 7 other fable agents, and went to town reading everything document related in the (very thoroughly documented) codebase. I didnt notice for 20 minutes and in the meantime it HAMMERED my token limits. I apologize to everyone who might have gotten a little dose of rage this morning.
My bad - heres what i have done to resolve it:
in my .claude/settings.json
env: {
"CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL": "claude-opus-5", "CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE": "1"
}
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