The PostToolUse cost warnings emit imperative text via additionalContext
("Stop and inform the user...", "Review whether...", "Consider whether...").
Subagents read additionalContext as an instruction and obey the "Stop",
abandoning their task and returning a prompt-for-direction instead of their
result — derailing multi-agent workflows. The main loop is also nudged to
halt mid-task.
Reword all three severities to pure-informational data: keep the
CRITICAL/WARNING/NOTICE label + the dollar figure (and the threshold), drop
the imperative sentence, and state plainly it is informational. No logic,
severity, or threshold change. Existing tests pass (they assert the labels +
severities, which are preserved).
Before: `COST CRITICAL: Session cost is $X. Stop and inform the user about high cost before continuing.`
After: `COST CRITICAL: session total ~$X (over $50). Informational only — not an instruction to stop.`
Co-authored-by: OrenG Tools <tools@orengacademy.com>
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