[Bug] Extended thinking hangs indefinitely, consuming all tokens without returning results

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Apr 6, 2026 by hillimited Closed Jul 2, 2026

Bug Description
There must be some issues here recently. I can use CC only for a few prompts. Some tasks could run normally, but then each recent session ended with freezing thinking for a long time without any result back, then all tokens were gone, hitting the session limit. I tried so hard to save the tokens by using Sonnet instead of Opus. I'm broke and on very limited budget. It's all gone. I can't work right now. I hadn't had this issue a few weeks ago. But this week, my CC got hit problem. There was a issue for sure. Please help me with this ASAP.

Session ID: 3ee7b5b7-5011-4a95-9512-c48169ff6abf

The evidence is the context usage in session was still only 46% from the session started. No way it would drain all my tokens.
⎿ Context Usage
⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ Sonnet 4.6
claude-sonnet-4-6
⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ 91.8k/200k tokens (46%)

⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ Estimated usage by category
⛁ System prompt: 4.2k tokens (2.1%)
⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ System tools: 6.9k tokens (3.5%)
⛁ Memory files: 2.2k tokens (1.1%)
⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛁ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛁ Skills: 2k tokens (1.0%)
⛁ Messages: 75.8k tokens (37.9%)
⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ ⛶ Free space: 75.9k (37.9%)
⛝ Autocompact buffer: 33k tokens (16.5%)
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Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: vscode
  • Version: 2.1.92
  • Feedback ID: d111daa5-4372-4158-882e-1bfacdc434ec

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