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Steven Menke: an Agents SDK bug and a reported $1,700 Durable Objects invoice.
Steven Menke (@Galorious_) reports that runaway Durable Objects caused by an Agents SDK bug produced a $1,700 invoice in three days, citing one trillion SQLite reads (a later post says writes). He says his support ticket, even after a maintainer escalated it, received no reply for months.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Read volume
- Incident date
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- First reported
- 2026-03-23 18:58 UTC
Latest reported outcome
The author reports a support ticket about the invoice, later escalated by a maintainer, with no reply as of October 8, 2026.
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Case timeline
Author reports $1.7k in three days
Read on 𝕏Sharing a Cloudflare account-usage skill, the author says he built it after being burned by runaway Durable Objects / Agents SDK: “$1.7k spend in 3 days.”
Steven Menke
@Galorious_ · Original 𝕏 post
Made a /CF-account-status CC skill. Shows health and usage/cost for everything running on your @CloudflareDev account. Utilises the CF api mcp. Needed it after getting burned by runaway Durable Objects / agents sdk. $1.7k spend in 3 days ain't fun... GH link below.
Public request: no ticket reply for five weeks
Read on 𝕏The author asks Dane Knecht for help: an Agents SDK bug made five Durable Objects rack up one trillion SQLite reads and a $1700 invoice, and his support ticket has had no reply for five weeks.
Steven Menke
@Galorious_ · Original 𝕏 post
Hi @dok2001 could you help out? I have a $1700 cf invoice bc 5 durable objects racking up 1 Trillion sqlite reads. Due to a bug in agents sdk. Been 5 weeks with zero reply on my support ticket regarding this.
Asks again: still no support reply
Read on 𝕏In another thread the author says an Agents SDK bug led to one trillion DO SQL writes and a $1.7K invoice, that support never replied, and asks for help again.
Steven Menke
@Galorious_ · Original 𝕏 post
I had a similar issue with 1 trillion DO sql writes due to a agents sdk bug leading to a $1.7K invoice. Never heard anything back from support. Could you help out?
Author reports zero response on all channels
Read on 𝕏Replying to others, the author says he has the same $1.7K bill from DOs hitting an Agents SDK bug, with zero response on all channels.
Steven Menke
@Galorious_ · Original 𝕏 post
Same. $1.7K bill. Also DO’s hitting an Agents SDK bug, Just zero response on all channels..
Ticket escalated by maintainer
Read on 𝕏The author says the $1.7K bill came from DOs hitting an alarm bug in the Agents SDK; his support ticket was even escalated by a maintainer, but months later there is no response on any channel.
Steven Menke
@Galorious_ · Original 𝕏 post
How did you get in contact? Have had the same. $1.7K bill due to DO’s hitting an alarm bug in Agents SDK. Support ticket was even escalated by maintainer, but literally zero response on all channels after months.
Asks again in shmily7’s thread
Read on 𝕏Replying to Ashley Peacock, the author says he had a similar $1,700 bill from runaway DOs caused by an Agents SDK bug; the bug was reported and fixed and the SDK developer followed up internally several times, but support never replied. He asks for help.
Steven Menke
@Galorious_ · Original 𝕏 post
I had a similar issue with a $1.700 bill - also due runaway DOs due to an agents sdk bug. Reported and fixed. Multiple follow ups internally by agents sdk dev. Heard nothing back from support, ever, sadly. If you could help out here much appreciated. Afraid of DOs now..
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