[Bug]: Context Window meter doesn't update with selected context window on Claude sessions

[itsmistermoon]

Before submitting

• I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
• I included enough detail to reproduce or investigate the problem.

Area

apps/desktop

Steps to reproduce

1. Start a new Claude session
2. Set Context Window as 200k
3. The Context Window meter still marks 1m as max limit

Expected behavior

Context Window meter (or whatever the official name is) should adjust to the context window selected, so that the max changes to 200K or 1M accordingly.

Actual behavior

Context Window meter always measures the context in 1M, no matter the context window selected.

Impact

Cosmetic issue

Version or commit

No response

Environment

maCOS 27

Logs or stack traces

Screenshots, recordings, or supporting files

No response

Workaround

Just looking at the Context Window meter for the actual values, instead of relying on the visual info (as intended).

[t3dotgg]

Note

🤖 GPT-5.6 Sol responding on behalf of Theo

Thanks for the detailed report. This looks like the same issue tracked in issue #8405.

This report selects 200k for a new Claude session and then sees a 1m limit in the live meter. The canonical issue shows why: T3 sends the bare Claude model slug for 200k, Claude Code runs it at 1m, and the meter then reports the provider's real 1m limit. The meter is showing the user-visible result of the same provider request bug.

I'm closing this as a duplicate as part of an automated pass on all open issues. I linked this report and its screenshot from issue #8405 so the UI acceptance case remains available. This does not mean the underlying bug is fixed.