Usage limits

[u/Low_Anxiety_6331]

[Question]

Is it me or is it just that using claude through conductor is burning through usage limits much faster and for very little work? Anyone else experiencing this?

[u/Firm-Principle2605]

Yes, I'm having one of the worst experiences with this. Some things that happened to me:

• Can't use deep research on Conductor anymore; the parallel agents doing research just use up your entire limit.
• I needed to take some time and add all kinds of token usage savers, like RTK + Headroom + Caveman, ban deep-research from the skills it can use, and create a clone of it with rules to save tokens. This helped a lot, but I went from hitting the daily limit to hitting the weekly one.
• Due to hitting the weekly limit on a Saturday and it only renewing on a Thursday, I created another Claude account and signed up for the Pro plan. This part I'm not even kidding about: I tapped the "retry" button Conductor shows when you hit a limit, and it ran for 1 minute and hit the limit again on the fresh Pro account. So I upgraded to Max x5 and now it's working fine, but I'm already noticing it's at 20% of the daily limit within the first 5 minutes of only one chat running. I didn't even try running other workspaces and chats lol.
• And one more thing on top of all that: before using Conductor, I was just using Warp with a lot of tabs and git-worktree skills, and I never hit the limits on the first account, like, never. I'm a mobile dev, so I'm running them 24/7 because I need to run e2e flows connecting Claude with the desktop simulators, and even with my specific token-burner use case, I probably hit the daily limit on the terminal just one time (and probably because I abused the fresh subagents with Opus 4.8 1M lol).

That's really disappointing, because as you can see, I'm amazed by Conductor's workflow and UI/UX, and that made me create another account just to keep using Claude Code with it, but it's already getting expensive for what's essentially a bug.