{"slug": "claude-recursive-subagents-burning-hundreds-in-extra-tokens", "title": "Claude recursive subagents burning hundreds in extra tokens", "summary": "Anthropic enabled subagents to launch their own subagents, leading to reports that ed3d-plugins are costing users hundreds of dollars in extra API tokens due to uncontrolled subagent creation.", "body_md": "This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.\n\n### Post\n\nEd\n\ned3d.net\n\ndid:plc:klhtmrnregub7we7h6jwiljm\n\ngood news, everyone, anthropic gave subagents the ability to launch their own subagents and now people are reporting that ed3d-plugins are costing them hundreds of dollars in API tokens because models are farting subagents everywhere\nabsolute clowns. just absolute careless clumsy clowns\n\n2026-06-16T18:34:28.471Z", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-recursive-subagents-burning-hundreds-in-extra-tokens", "canonical_source": "https://bsky.app/profile/ed3d.net/post/3moggsr47dk2z", "published_at": "2026-06-16 19:15:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 19:19:07.863724+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "ed3d-plugins"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-recursive-subagents-burning-hundreds-in-extra-tokens", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-recursive-subagents-burning-hundreds-in-extra-tokens.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-recursive-subagents-burning-hundreds-in-extra-tokens.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-recursive-subagents-burning-hundreds-in-extra-tokens.jsonld"}}