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Agent analysis shows 26% of Claude Code tokens went to unmonitored subagents, one (zip-lander) consuming 10.7% alone. Delegation relocates costs; cache reads account for 97.7% of spending—standard pricing models miss the true cost structure of agent delegation.
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I run Claude Code with a pile of custom subagents. I had no idea what any of them cost me, because the number you get shown is one number.
So I counted every assistant record on this machine: 63,749 API calls, 17,054,267,530 tokens. The split:
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