> 23 agents total.

This hit a bit too close to home. Sol has the same issue, spawns a lot of agents for no good reasons (besides burning tokens).

I heard this was a thing when listening to a Theo podcast, he mentioned to add a "Only use subagents if the user explicitly requests them" line in your agents.md file.

I don't know if it works, but I've always had a consistent level of token burn on my plans (I've only heavily used Sol after adding it).