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My Subagents Were Eating 48% of My Tokens. So I Gave Them Hard Budget Caps — Enforced by Hooks, Not Dashboards

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My subagents were eating 48% of my tokens. So I gave them hard budget caps — enforced by hooks, not dashboards A few weeks ago a measurement made the rounds: developer aidiveyt logged a month of Claude Code usage — 455 sessions, 2,631 subagent runs — and found subagents had consumed 48.1% of all to…

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  1. 2026-10-11 09:29 · DEV Community — AI
    My Subagents Were Eating 48% of My Tokens. So I Gave Them Hard Budget Caps — Enforced by Hooks, Not Dashboards

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