[BUG] 🚨 Excessive Token Usage in Claude, Small Prompts Consuming more than 80% Quota, Think before claude subscription

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

This is extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemely frustrating.

Claude is consuming a huge amount of tokens even for very small prompts. A single simple prompt is taking up more than 80

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% of the available usage, which makes it unusable for regular work.

This happens consistently, not just once.

What Should Happen?

consume the less quota than

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Send a small prompt (normal dev task just replace the String with other string, nothing large)
Observe token usage
A large portion (~50%) is consumed immediately

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

No, this never worked

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

NA

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Other

Additional Information

While working on refactoring:

Replacing organization → workspace across UI, state, reducers, routes, etc.
API paths and payloads are unchanged

Even for this simple task, token usage is extremely high.