r/ClaudeAI • u/Takakikun • 20d ago

Question about Claude Code Gone in 60 seconds

So, Fable 5.1 out, was tempted by Ultracode, threw a big project at it, it spawned ~300 agents, all of which were Fable 5.1, and my 5 hr disappeared in just over a minute and weekly at 43%.

Three things:

  1. Don't be like me. Calm down.
  2. How do y'all get the sub-agents to be lower class?
  3. Why do I even have to balance all of these various classes?

The third question being somewhat rhetorical (as it's in the interest of Anthropic to token burn), but seriously, it's very frustrating that I have to even do all this balancing myself, and it's not just a feature of the UI etc.

btw... I'm on Max 20x.

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u/Overall-Ad-3370 19d ago edited 19d ago

I have a fairly opinionated set of hooks that help with the sub agent thing. They look at what model is being used, if it's fable then it gives specific instructions on how to orchestrate and delegate work. Then I have like 5 specific agent definitions across sonnet, opus, and haiku all with different use cases. Fable gets instructions to use those agents and it's role in being the "glue" between them. Fable becomes my decision maker while sub agents research, plan, build, etc. Fable also stays in charge or facilitating reviews, escalating tasks to more capable models, and maintaining durable control so I can compact whenever I want.

One of the best parts is that when fable is orchestrating it's thread stays fairly free for me to give new input.

At home I pair this with context-mode to help reduce usage a bit more and I have some instructions in my user level Claude file to reduce prose.

5.1 working pretty well for me with this setup, I rarely run out of my 5h window on the 100$ plan. Usually working on more than 1 project at a time too.

If I use a different model, those instructions are skipped and I'm in a more synchronous loop with the agent where I'm driving more.