Agentic-Sessions

Average enterprise Claude Code cost is $13 per developer per active day — and a single agentic prompt can burn 50,000 to 300,000 tokens, with users reporting single prompts eating 30-90% of a 5-hour budget. Agent teams using plan mode consume 7x more tokens than standard sessions. Before task budgets existed, the only options for controlling this spend were max_tokens (which cuts off mid-task) or manual session management. Task budgets, introduced in public beta on Claude Opus 4.7 in 2026, give you a third option: a soft advisory limit that lets Claude finish gracefully when approaching the budget, reporting progress and pausing rather than cutting off silently. Here’s how to use them. ...