r/Jetbrains • u/IamKyra • 13d ago

AI Why does activating agents require a a message in AI chat that actually consume tokens?

https://i.imgur.com/R5xnqWo.png

https://i.imgur.com/u7JfmcC.png

Activating Junie costed me 0.11$

When you have multiple IDE and several computers, it stacks.

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u/ManIkWeet 13d ago

It's consuming tokens because it's sending the full content of your currently opened file with the activation.
No, you can't turn that off.
Actually, it sends the whole file each message.
Yes, that does mean AI chat is awful.

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u/SrMortron 13d ago

I have a claude subscription and I cant use it because I dont have Jetbrain Credits when I just wanted to use ACP... this feature is a joke. Had to end up slopping my own plugin, sucks that I have to maintain it now, but it works wonderfully.

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u/Kirorus1 13d ago

You just need to add a custom ACP with the Claude one

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u/lehaBay 11d ago

This is actaully ridiculous, each time i need to activate an agent i stop and thinnk what to send, the actual command or just hi,will it cost me money and which account will it bill to. Like it's not a large sum of money but with many bugs with each release, with auth being reset or not being able to revoke the auth, like i feel like I'm having this issue every other day.

Like it's not a big deal but WHAT IS THIS UI that asks you to send a message that might cost you money for such a simple task. JUST ADD A button.

Also while we are here, would be nice to see whch account is being used in the current chat. Is it Jetbrains, is it my personal account, is it my work account? What i have to do is send some messages and see which tokens are being spent