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drained plan
A usage plan whose budget has been exhausted mid-run, surfacing to a nested fan-out of subagents as repeated API errors rather than a clean stop.
also written as drained plan error
Related terms
fan-outThe pattern where one delegated task spawns multiple concurrent subagents, and each of those can spawn more of its own. Depth is usually capped, but breadth often is not, so total agents alive can multiply far past what anyone intended.view termrate limit windowThe rolling period, such as seven days, over which a usage quota is measured before it resets. Its reported reset time can shift mid-window, so the percentage consumed matters more than the countdown.view term
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