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…al setting #9190 moved the composer's context window indicator into "Legacy features", off by default, without a stated reason. Users read the label as a deprecation and asked for it back in that PR's thread and in #9352. Seeing current context occupancy is how people decide when to compact or start a new thread. The toggle now defaults on and sits in Settings → General with the other composer options, with a reset button like its neighbours. An explicit opt-out is preserved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes the context-window meter from an opt-in to an enabled-by-default product behavior, affecting the existing composer path while preserving explicit opt-outs. It also relocates the setting into General, so the default change warrants human review. Notes:
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What Changed
The composer's context window indicator is visible again by default. Its toggle moved out of Legacy features into Settings → General, next to the other composer options, with a reset button like its neighbours. Settings search finds it as "Context window indicator" without the legacy suffix.
The
contextWindowMeterEnabledclient setting stays. It now decodes totruewhen absent, so existing users get the meter back without touching anything, and anyone who explicitly switched it off keeps it off. The composer gating and slot reservation logic are unchanged.Why
#9190 hid the indicator behind a default-off legacy toggle with no stated reason. Users read the "legacy" label as a deprecation notice. That PR's thread and #9352 collect a lot of requests to bring it back. Seeing current context occupancy is how people decide when to compact or start a fresh thread, and it is the same number Claude Code and Codex show in their own status lines.
Keeping it optional is reasonable for anyone who wants a cleaner composer, so this keeps the switch but makes it a normal, supported setting.
Closes #9352
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