> wastes user money and bricks managed agents

This issue is representative of a larger problem. Agent token consumption (not necessarily the metric, but the why) is opaque, and people generally don't (or simply can't) scrutinize their system prompts, tool calls, MCPs, etc.

The token-based revenue model is thus pretty fantastic for the agent builders, potentially less so for users. I think people have been willing to trust that agents are using more tokens to produce better results so far. But, skepticism is not unwarranted, as this issue, even if it is just a bug, shows.

Revenue-positive bugs are the stickiest features.

Yeah you have no clue what Claude code is actually doing. Any “thoughts” it tells you are slopped out separately and deliberately fake.

It could be deleting all of your files, it could be inserting vulnerabilities, you have no idea.