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by cedws 61 days ago
Ok, let's say I'm not using it to deplete leftover usage, the task just happens to run down the 5 hour window usage.

Are you willing to bet your account over whether you've read between the lines correctly? Anthropic aren't going to listen to appeals.
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deaux 61 days ago
> the task just happens to run down the 5 hour window usage.

In a single prompt? From zero usage? That doesn't "just happen".

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cedws 61 days ago
When you're using the SDK, yes it can. Example: I used the Python SDK to translate a bunch of source code recently. I spawned a subagent for each module that needed translating and left it to run for a few hours with a parallelism limit of 5. It blasted through the 5 hour usage and dug into extra usage credits.

I have zero assurances that the above can't result in a ban. The usage pattern is not distinct from OpenClaw.

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deaux 61 days ago
As I said, it doesn't just happen, you explicitly had to set it up so it could happen.
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kuboble 61 days ago
I'm confused about this comment.

The GP has described a task which feels like a task very well within intended usage of CC, but can easily eat up the usage limit.

What should we read between the lines about this scenario?

Is it a bannable offense?

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sigseg1v 60 days ago
Just in case it wasn't clear, what they described doesn't need extra tooling. You can write this in your CLI and it will easily cap a Max 20x plan in an hour: "we are converting this entire codebase from TS to C#. Following the guidelines I've written in MIGRATION.md, convert each file individually. Use up to 32 parallel subagents. Track your work for each file in a PROGRESS.md file, which you will update for each file starting and completing. Using an agent team, as a secondary step, add a verification layer where you verify each file individually for accurate migration following the instructions in VERIFICATION.md"

Yea there are other ways to do this, you can set up a separate harness sure to make it more efficient, but just the above will also work, it's just text you paste into your CC terminal, and it will absolutely cap the largest subscription plan available no problem.

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