Crashed ultrareview (cloud code review) still consumed a free ultrareview credit

Status Closed — duplicate
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Activity 2 comments · opened Aug 13, 2026 · closed Aug 15, 2026

Summary

A cloud ultrareview (/code-review ultra <PR#>) crashed on the orchestrator side and produced no review output, but it still consumed one of my free ultrareview credits.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Ran /ultrareview 6562 (deprecated alias of /code-review ultra 6562) from the Claude Code CLI against a GitHub PR.
  2. CLI confirmed launch: Free ultrareview 1 of 3. with session link https://claude.ai/code/session_01CxHFcN2BN4GVUcYAGRhkqH.
  3. A few minutes later the task notification came back as failed:

> Cloud review failed: orchestrator reported an error: Review crashed unexpectedly. See session logs for details.

  1. No findings were ever delivered.
  2. Retried later with /code-review ultra 6562 — the CLI now shows Free ultrareview 2 of 3., confirming the crashed run was counted against the free quota.

Expected behavior

A run that crashes server-side before producing any review output should not decrement the free ultrareview counter (or the credit should be automatically refunded).

Actual behavior

The crashed run consumed free credit 1 of 3 despite delivering nothing.

Environment

  • Claude Code CLI on macOS (Darwin 25.6.0)
  • Model: Claude Fable 5
  • Failed session: session_01CxHFcN2BN4GVUcYAGRhkqH (2026-08-13)
  • Successful retry session: session_015qJaoHEaEw8JDHvqGdrXJL

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