Flamerix AI reported that Claude Code generates short status labels from background agents’ transcripts and that these requests represented 19.7% of API calls and 16.4% of estimated cost in one week of its workload. An unofficial Linux hook suppressed the roughly 30-second summaries, eliminating those calls but also stopping status updates. The figures are neither actual invoice totals nor percentages of subscription allowance, and are not user-wide averages. A separate analysis did not claim independent reproduction. Inspecting OpenTelemetry request sources, models and cache usage should therefore come before adopting the workaround.