Claude Code quietly spends a fifth of your tokens describing its own work in three words

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

Every 30 seconds, Claude Code ships each background agent's entire transcript back to Opus just to caption its status line — a hidden request that hit 16.4% of total spend, 19.7% of all API calls, and roughly 9,000 input tokens per output token. There's no setting to disable it, so Flamerix AI built an ~80-line Bun preload that intercepts the summarizer timer and kills it without touching the binary.