More than 25 tool calls burn premium requests

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I noticed a strange behaviour:

  1. The first 25 tool calls took only 1 premium request. That’s fine and that is what I expected.
  2. After 25 tools it paused and showed a button something like “You can continue conversation”.
  3. I pressed this button and it continued calling the tools, but I noticed that every single tool call consumed an individual premium request. So after regular 25 tool calls it made ~15 more and burned 15 premium requests with a single click.

Expected behaviour - next 25 tool calls consume only a single premium request

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I can’t exactly confirm, but I did notice that I had about 100 requests left and I did some tasks with 3.7 and I ran out of requests very fast. I thought it had just been a mistake in my side, but now it makes sense.

And, now that you mention it, I notice that the following happened:

  • Sonnet 3.7 tends to be very thorough in analyzing the code, it reads a lot of files, so I faced the 25 limit quite often.
  • It also tends to be obsessively iterative. I don’t know if it’s something in my prompts or what, but it tends to do several passes to the same file with different changes. This sometimes leads to breaking stuff that had got right the first time. While this wasn’t a big problem, I found it odd and it also made it run into the 25 tools limit quite often.

This is good in general, it leads to a very good understanding of my code and a very good output, but combined with what you mention, it can be problematic. I hope they solve this if true.

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I concur with this. While i would not go as far to say that we are being charged for each tool call, the delay in charge update, issues with Cursor as IDE, with Models using Cursor internal prompts or spewing those internal parts into the chat, combined with higher error rates, crashes when using tools locally or remotely, inaccurate error mesages, etc. are definitely a cause of frustration and productivity loss.

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Same request burnout fast.

5

Same experience! I thought I was hallucinating. I went from 149 premium calls to 164 after 1 prompt! Same situation: “continue…” after hitting the first 25 tool call limit.

Cursor needs to increase this with Claude 3.7. This isn’t right.

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Me too, 3.7. He’s too consumed.

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Exactly Exactly the same problem.
While reading the code base “thoroughly” is a grand idea, it did consume too many premium requests when I just had a total of 5-6 files on an entirely fresh work

Something is fishy ?