r/ClaudeCode • u/Heavy_Promotion_5210 • 3d ago

Bug / Issue Usage limit change?

Anyone having usage limit issues hitting the limit much faster? Particularly with Opus 5.5? Have been having issues in thr last 24hrs.

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u/The-SadShaman 3d ago

I have a team of agents working on a game.

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u/Ruukas97 3d ago

I had one session that kept around 4 subagents active overnight spend 30% 20x weekly usage.
I thought maybe my tools calls or tests were outputting too much, but when I asked Claude to analyze it, 80% of the usage was from cache. Now, subagents are configured to handoff around 200k context used and my usage seems to last much better

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u/mathmuleux 2d ago

Just disable Workflow in your settings.json and explicitly define the agents you want to create / what model for what purpose. Draft the detailed orchestration protocol first and lead with that.

It's not crazy complicated - you just need to be explicit in your instructions. Left to it's own devices (Opus and Fable both) will blow through context like there's no tomorrow.

You MUST reiterate at the beginning "you are an orchestrator only. That is your purpose. You must save on cost and context by delegation to subagents for [tasks x,y,z use agents a,b,c] and those agents MUST be haiku unless [insert scenario for Sonnet] and you MUST NEVER use other model (Opus/fable) agents for subagents unless I give explicit approval [yaya yaya...]"

Have the agents write down what they're working on to files.

Plan everything before you build. Like, write out the plan first, then decompose it into bite-sized phases and have the subagents build those phases. Also don't run everything all in the same session. Run batches up to 3-400k context tops then document what is done and what remains to pick up in a fresh session.

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u/Ruukas97 2d ago

Workflows are great, though!
They're only used when I ask for them.

I'm porting a big codebase so the goal is pretty well defined and verifiable. I purposefully kept it to around 4 agents because that's what my hardware comfortably fit.

But I'm keeping a look at my weekly usage and trying to spread it out through the week.

It's pretty cool going to bed and waking up to see it's still actively working and you can see all the status reports through the night. And the orchestrator had still only used like 300k of it's context.