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The Claude context meter (thread.token-usage.updated -> context-window activities) was fed by three sources that are not context evidence: - task_progress / task_notification usage: total_tokens is cumulative across the task's own requests (subagent throughput). Feeding it to the meter with a Math.max ratchet only ever moved usedTokens upward, far past the real context window. Task totals still reach the task UI via typedUsage; they no longer touch the meter. - explicit total_tokens on usage records: treated as active context and clamped to the window, producing fake full-window readings. Aggregate totals now only ever feed totalProcessedTokens; active context is derived from the per-request input/cache/output split (claudeActiveTokens). - message_delta usage without input-side counters (native Anthropic stream deltas carry output_tokens only): collapsed the meter to the in-flight message's output size mid-stream. Deltas without input evidence are now skipped; proxies mirroring full usage still update live. Tests updated to the corrected semantics; the removed ratchet/clamp behaviors are now asserted as never fabricating meter readings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
A fourth inflated-meter source, found live: the Claude Agent SDK's claude/result.usage sums per-request usage across every model round-trip in the turn (num_turns > 1). Feeding that aggregate to the meter showed a 23k thread jumping to 112k, and clamped to a fake full-window (1M) once the summed inputs passed the window. Per-request evidence is unambiguous: the turn's message_delta carried input 3265 + cache_read 19456 + output 396 = 23117, while the result carried exactly the sum of all five requests' inputs and outputs. With a proxy that emits zero-usage assistant frames, the aggregate was the only "active" record left, so the fallback chain accepted it. Results spanning multiple round-trips (num_turns > 1, no per-iteration data) now behave like explicit-total records: the aggregate feeds totalProcessedTokens only, and the meter keeps the last per-request snapshot (message_delta / assistant usage), upgraded to the result's context window. Single-round-trip results keep feeding active usage as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pin three branches of the per-request-evidence rule the regression test did not reach: - a result with num_turns > 1 AND populated per-request `iterations` feeds the meter from the last iteration's context, while the turn-wide sum still lands in totalProcessedTokens; - an aggregate result with no per-request evidence at all (no assistant frames, no total_tokens) emits no meter snapshot rather than reading the summed input counters as context; - a resume-handshake result (num_turns: 0, zeroed usage) cannot clobber or deflate the meter's last real snapshot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughClaudeAdapter now separates active context usage from cumulative processed-token totals. Per-request usage evidence drives the context meter; aggregate result totals and task totals do not create or replace its snapshot. ChangesClaude token usage accounting
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Collect events through turn.completed, not the first two events.
Stream.take(adapter.streamEvents, 2) can stop after session.started and session.configured, before the aggregate result emits turn.completed or any usage event. The usageEvents.length === 0 assertion can therefore pass without observing the result handling.
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| const runtimeEventsFiber = yield* Stream.take(adapter.streamEvents, 2).pipe( | |
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts` around lines 3995 -
3998, Update the runtimeEventsFiber collection in the test to consume
adapter.streamEvents through the turn.completed event instead of taking the
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fix(server): the context meter must only consume per-request usage evidence
Symptom
On a thread driven through a non-Anthropic backend, the context-window meter
shows multiples of the real context size:
to a fake "full window" red state.
The worst case needs nothing exotic: any turn that spans multiple model
round-trips (i.e. every tool-using agentic turn) on a backend where assistant
messages carry no usage.
Root cause — one rule, four violations
The meter is only meaningful if it consumes per-request evidence: usage
snapshots that describe the prompt size of the current model request. Four
code paths fed it records that are cumulative throughput, not context:
task_progress/task_notificationusage — turn-wide running totals.total_tokenson usage records — a throughput total, not theactive prompt size.
message_deltaevents — no input evidence at all.claude/result.usage(the big one) — the Claude Agent SDKsums per-request usage across every model round-trip of the turn into
result.usagewhennum_turns > 1. Feeding that to the meter showed thesum; on a 1M-context model the sum crossed the window and clamped the
gauge to full.
The fix routes all four to
totalProcessedTokens— where they genuinelybelong, and where the accounting keeps working — and leaves the meter fed
exclusively by per-request snapshots (assistant message usage, per-request
message_delta). Single-round-trip results keep feeding active usage asbefore, so turns with one model call behave exactly as before.
Why upstream never saw this, and who is affected
On a genuine Claude subscription (or first-party API key), every assistant
message carries real per-request usage and the meter prefers it, so in the
steady state this change is a no-op for first-party traffic (verified:
identical meters pre- and post-fix under real SDK traffic with populated
assistant usage). The aggregate path is still reachable on first-party
whenever per-request evidence is missing or late — that is the #8594
residual (see the measured 93 clamped
usedTokens: 1000000events in oneweek on that install), and the
task_progressratchet (#4650) fires onsubscription traffic too.
The bug bites when assistant frames arrive with zero usage — the shape
produced when the CLI runs against a non-Anthropic backend that reports usage
only at stream end. We reproduced this against LiteLLM (the Anthropic
/v1/messages→ OpenAI chat-completions bridge): itsmessage_startalwayscarries zeroed usage (the bridge cannot know prompt size before the upstream
stream finishes — confirmed in litellm 1.99.0,
_create_initial_usage_delta),while the final
message_deltacarries real usage. Any Claude Code / t3 setupriding such a bridge gets an inflated or fake-full meter today. This is not
mock-only or LiteLLM-specific: the same shape was reproduced end-to-end
through a second, independent OpenAI-compatible backend (llama.cpp serving a
local Qwen3 model, behind the same LiteLLM bridge) — two real backends, same
zero-usage assistant frames, same aggregate result, same fix behavior.
Verification
Unit: regression test in
ClaudeAdapter.test.tsreproduces the liveshape — per-request
message_delta= 23,117 tokens, aggregateresultwith
num_turns: 5= 112,150 — and asserts the final snapshot isusedTokens: 23117, totalProcessedTokens: 112150.End-to-end (pre/post comparison): real
claudeCLI (2.1.282) driventhrough t3's claudeAgent driver against a mock Anthropic Messages API with
an MCP tool forcing a second round-trip, in the LiteLLM shape (zero-usage
assistant frames, aggregate result
num_turns: 2). Identical trafficthrough the pre-fix and post-fix code:
usedTokens(meter)totalProcessedTokensEnd-to-end (independent backend): same t3 driver against a real local
model — llama.cpp (OpenAI endpoint) serving Qwen3-0.6B, behind LiteLLM —
two round-trips forced by an MCP tool. Raw SDK events: round-1 delta
29162, round-2 delta 29221, aggregate result (
num_turns: 2) 58383.Post-fix meter held the per-request 29221 and routed 58383 to
totalProcessedTokensonly (pre-fix would have shown the meter at 58383,2× the real context).
No-op check: same rig with real per-request usage on assistant frames
(first-party shape) produced identical meters pre- and post-fix.
Notes for reviewers
claudeActiveTokens(usage) = input + output(cache fields count toward theinput side) remains the definition of active context for per-request
records; only the routing of aggregate/total-only records changed.
usedTokensis display-only. No t3code path keys compaction decisions off it — compaction triggers are the
user's explicit
/compactand the CLI's internal auto-compact (t3 onlyforwards the
autoCompactWindowsetting; the CLI decides from its ownaccounting), and ingestion consumes
usedTokensretroactively to fill inbefore/after counts on compaction records. The pre-fix inflation affected
meter rendering only.
holds (or emits nothing without) the last per-request reading, the resume
handshake (
system/init+result(num_turns: 0)) carries no usage andfabricates nothing, and the next turn re-anchors the meter to its own
per-request evidence. Covered by dedicated tests.
model's real window (1M) when consecutive records disagree on
maxTokens;pre-existing and cosmetic, not touched here.
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