r/ClaudeAI: Claude Code CLI Burns 5.4 Million Tokens on Two Queries, Crashes Internally, and Locks Max Plan for 5 Hours

A Claude Max subscriber reports that Claude Code CLI consumed 5.4 million tokens across two basic queries, crashed internally mid-task, and blocked their plan for five hours without completing the requested work. The post is drawing community attention on r/ClaudeAI amid a documented pattern of recent Claude Code reliability incidents. The extreme token consumption without task completion points to potential runaway context accumulation in agentic CLI workflows that the current quota system does not prevent.