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Pitfall

Heavy Models Can Burn Through Usage Limits Fast

Large contexts and Heavy-tier models can consume an allowance far earlier than expected, especially during planning.

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What happened

Community reports include a one-million-token planning run consuming more than a day of ordinary editing and a four-hour, two-agent session reaching the limit. A safer pattern is to reserve large-context models for planning, then execute with smaller windows.

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Why this belongs in the atlas

Treat this as a risk note: start with least privilege, supervise the first run, and keep a rollback path.

Research provenance

Compiled from the linked source and archived research notes on September 2, 2026.

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