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Claude Code burns ~15–20% of your tokens on a 3-word status line

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A developer-authored Bun preload script, no-agent-summary.js, stops Claude Code from re-sending each background agent's full transcript to its model every 30 seconds just to refresh a status line, which the author measured at roughly 15 to 20 percent of token spend.

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