Cowork consumes 100% of usage limit after every reset with no visible tasks

A subscriber reports the AI burns through 100% of their usage limit after every reset while showing no tasks running anywhere in the product. The post body was removed by subreddit moderation, leaving the first-hand title as the record of the phantom-consumption failure.

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Why it’s worth knowing

The quota is fully consumed by work the user cannot see, stop, or audit anywhere in the interface.

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Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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