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Closes #15.

The context meter rendered as a thin red line outside the chat input widget while reporting 786% of context filled. Two independent defects compounded.

Bug 1 — the percentage was never clamped

core/llm/countTokens.ts:

const availableTokens = contextLength - countingSafetyBuffer - minOutputTokens;
const contextPercentage = inputTokens / availableTokens;   // unbounded

Pruning only guarantees currentTotal <= inputTokensAvailable, but inputTokens then re-adds system, tool, and last-message tokens. When a model's declared contextLength is small relative to that fixed overhead, the ratio exceeds 1 by a wide margin — 786% is ~7.86x. availableTokens can also go negative if countingSafetyBuffer + minOutputTokens > contextLength, producing a negative percentage.

Now clamped at the source, with the degenerate denominator guarded:

const contextPercentage =
  availableTokens > 0 ? Math.min(inputTokens / availableTokens, 1) : 1;

Bug 2 — that value became a CSS height

style={{ height: ${percent}% }} on a 10px-tall box. At 786% the fill overflowed its container ~8x, in bg-error red, escaping the input widget entirely.

Fixed structurally rather than by relying on the clamp: the fill-height div is replaced by an SVG in a fixed 20x20 viewBox, which cannot overflow regardless of what it is handed. The clamp is now defence in depth, not the only thing standing between a bad number and a broken layout.

Bug 3 — hidden below 60%

if (!isPruned && percent < 60) return null; made the meter invisible for most of a session, then appear abruptly. Removed — it is now always visible.

Design

A full ring track with the used context drawn as an arc over it:

  • Track — a complete ring in currentColor at 0.3 opacity, always drawn.
    Theme-aware, so it inherits text-description like the neighbouring icons.
  • Used context sweeps clockwise from 12 o'clock, ramping hsl(170 -> 0):
    teal, green, yellow at the midpoint, saturated red at full. Saturation and
    lightness climb with usage so a nearly-full context reads as an alarm rather
    than just another hue. Butt caps, since round ones add a half-stroke blob at
    each end that is several times longer than the arc itself at low percentages.

An earlier revision drew the remainder as a complementary arc instead of a
ring. It was replaced because the arc was hardcoded #1a1a1a at 0.85 opacity
and proved invisible against a dark theme. The ring keeps a stable outline at
every percentage, so an empty context reads as a ring with a mark at 12 o'clock
rather than a lone dot with no sense of scale.

Moved to the left icon stack beside the attach-image and attach-context
icons, sharing their xs:flex hidden responsive behaviour, and wrapped in
HoverItem like every other icon on that row.

That wrapper was briefly removed during review, on the grounds that ToolTip
tags only its immediate child with data-tooltip-id, so the wrapper's 4px
padding falls outside the tooltip target and leaves a dead hover zone. The
mechanism is real, but removing the wrapper broke the meter's vertical
alignment
- it rendered visibly below the icons beside it. Two attempts to
reproduce the wrapper's box on the SVG itself (block, then
box-content px-1 py-[2px]) measured as pixel-identical in isolation and were
still wrong in the running extension, so the change was reverted. A confirmed
4px dead zone is a smaller cost than a visibly misaligned icon; if it is worth
closing later, it needs a fix that keeps the alignment.

The tooltip now reports remaining rather than consumed context, which reads
more actionably; compact and new-session actions are unchanged.

Verification

Arc geometry was checked standalone before trusting the render — across
0/1/10/25/50/51/75/90/99/100%, every generated coordinate stays inside the
viewBox and largeArc flips correctly at 50%. A full circle is drawn as two
half sweeps, since a single arc command cannot express one.

tsc --noEmit clean, prettier --check clean, countTokens suite passes
(17 passed / 21 pre-existing skips, unchanged).

Built and installed locally, verified by grepping the packaged VSIX rather than
the source tree: "of context remaining" present, the old "context filled"
string gone, and the meter's class string intact. Confirmed in the running
extension — the meter renders, is legible at icon size, and lines up with the
icons beside it.

Prior art

Anthropic's Claude Code VSCode extension (2.1.220) clamps the same way in its webview bundle — t > 0 ? Math.min((e / t) * 100, 100) : 0 — guarding the zero denominator and capping, and renders into a fixed 20x20 viewBox. It selects among three pre-baked arc paths by threshold (<62.5 -> 50, <87 -> 75, else 99), which cannot express the low end at all; this computes the path instead for a continuous 0-100% sweep.

Note

On models where system + tool overhead genuinely exceeds the usable window, the meter will now sit at 100% immediately. That is the honest reading of a real condition, not a display bug — the clamp fixes the display, it does not create context.

No version bump: this PR touches no version files. Local test builds were
versioned separately.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a persistent circular context-usage meter to the input toolbar.
    • The meter uses color-coded progress and displays remaining context in its tooltip.
    • Context usage is now shown in the left toolbar controls during normal input.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented invalid context percentages for small or unavailable context windows.
    • Limited context usage values to a valid 0–100% range.

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The change bounds context percentages, adds validation, replaces the vertical meter with a persistent circular SVG meter, updates its tooltip, and moves it to the left input toolbar controls.

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Context meter correction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded context calculation and validation
core/llm/countTokens.ts, core/llm/countTokens.test.ts
contextPercentage now handles non-positive budgets and caps values at 1. Tests cover normal, constrained, error, finite, and bounded results.
Circular context meter
gui/src/components/mainInput/ContextStatus.tsx
The meter clamps usage, derives remaining capacity, and renders a persistent SVG ring with usage-based HSL coloring. The tooltip reports remaining context.
Toolbar placement
gui/src/components/mainInput/InputToolbar.tsx
The meter renders in the left toolbar controls when the input is not in edit mode.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d8426

The context meter is hidden on narrow toolbars below the xs breakpoint, reducing visibility for users on smaller layouts; the PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit follow-up to preserve the meter across supported widths.

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The changes satisfy issue #15. They clamp invalid percentages, prevent overflow with a fixed SVG viewBox, keep the meter visible below 60%, move it to the left icon stack, and report remaining context in the tooltip.

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Pull request overview

Fixes the context meter by preventing impossible context percentages at the token-counting source and replacing the overflow-prone CSS “fill height” meter with a fixed-size SVG dual-arc meter in the input toolbar.

Changes:

  • Clamp contextPercentage in compileChatMessages (and guard a degenerate denominator) to prevent >100% readings.
  • Redesign the context meter UI as a fixed-viewBox SVG with complementary “used” and “remaining” arcs; always render it (remove the < 60% early return) and move it into the left icon stack.
  • Bump the VS Code extension version in extensions/vscode/package.json.
File summaries
File Description
gui/src/components/mainInput/InputToolbar.tsx Moves the context meter into the left icon stack and removes it from the right-side toolbar area.
gui/src/components/mainInput/ContextStatus.tsx Replaces the bar meter with a fixed-size SVG dual-arc meter; clamps UI percent and updates tooltip copy.
core/llm/countTokens.ts Clamps contextPercentage at the source to avoid impossible/unbounded ratios.
extensions/vscode/package.json Updates the extension version string.
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🟡 Changes recommended

The SVG meter implementation doesn’t currently match the PR’s stated “dual complementary arcs” design (remaining arc is not rendered as an arc), so the UI behavior/design intent is inconsistent.

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Addresses review feedback on #18.

Adds an active describe block for the contextPercentage contract, which
had no coverage - the existing compileChatMessages tests are describe.skip
with a stale positional signature.

The tests are deliberately scoped, and the block says so: they pin the
range invariant but do NOT fail if the clamp is removed. A grid search
over context lengths, max token counts and conversation sizes found no
input that drives the raw ratio above 1, because compileChatMessages
throws whenever the window is too small, before the ratio is computed.
The 786% came from a wrong denominator - a client configured for 32768
against a server serving 288768 - which this function cannot observe.
One test pins that throw so the guard is not mistaken for the reachable
path and removed as dead code.

Also expands the comment on the meter's track. Review suggested restoring
the complementary remaining-arc; the full ring is deliberate, because the
arc form vanished at 100% and collapsed into a capped blob at low
percentages. The comment now records that so the tradeoff is not
relitigated from the rendered output alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@core/llm/countTokens.test.ts`:
- Around line 237-254: Add a test in the context-percentage suite that compiles
an empty request with knownContextLength and maxTokens both set to zero, then
assert contextPercentage is finite and equals 1, ensuring the availableTokens >
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The context meter is wrapped in HoverItem outside its internal ToolTip, creating a dead hover/click zone in the padded area and inconsistent tooltip activation vs other toolbar icons.

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Comment thread gui/src/components/mainInput/InputToolbar.tsx
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Addresses review feedback on #18.

Adds an active describe block for the contextPercentage contract, which
had no coverage - the existing compileChatMessages tests are describe.skip
with a stale positional signature.

The tests are deliberately scoped, and the block says so: they pin the
range invariant but do NOT fail if the clamp is removed. A grid search
over context lengths, max token counts and conversation sizes found no
input that drives the raw ratio above 1, because compileChatMessages
throws whenever the window is too small, before the ratio is computed.
The 786% came from a wrong denominator - a client configured for 32768
against a server serving 288768 - which this function cannot observe.
One test pins that throw so the guard is not mistaken for the reachable
path and removed as dead code.

Also expands the comment on the meter's track. Review suggested restoring
the complementary remaining-arc; the full ring is deliberate, because the
arc form vanished at 100% and collapsed into a capped blob at low
percentages. The comment now records that so the tradeoff is not
relitigated from the rendered output alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The newly-added unskipped tests invoke the synchronously-skipped token-counting path and the SVG track comment currently claims a 0%-marker that is not rendered.

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The context meter could render far outside the chat input widget while
reporting impossible values (observed: 786% of context filled).

Two independent defects compounded:

- `contextPercentage` was an unclamped ratio. Pruning bounds `currentTotal`,
  but `inputTokens` then re-adds system, tool, and last-message tokens, so
  fixed overhead on a small context window pushes the ratio well above 1.
  `availableTokens` could also be negative. Clamp to [0, 1] at the source and
  guard the degenerate denominator.

- The percentage drove a CSS height on a 10px box, so 786% overflowed its
  container by ~8x and presented as a red line escaping the widget. Replace
  the fill-height bar with an SVG in a fixed viewBox, which cannot overflow
  regardless of input.

The meter now draws two complementary arcs: used context ramps blue-green
through yellow to a saturated red, with the unfilled remainder in dark. It
moves to the left icon stack alongside the attach/context icons, sharing
their responsive visibility, and no longer hides below 60% usage.

The tooltip now reports remaining rather than consumed context, which reads
more actionably.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three defects in the meter, all visible in a real toolbar:

- The ring spanned half its viewBox, so it rendered ~6px next to 12px
  heroicons. Derive the radius from the stroke width to fill the box.
- The unfilled track was drawn as an arc from the current percentage, and
  hardcoded to #1a1a1a. It is now a full circle in currentColor, so it
  inherits the surrounding text-description and stays visible on any
  theme rather than disappearing into a dark background.
- Round stroke caps added a half-stroke blob at each end. Below a few
  percent that blob was several times longer than the arc itself, so a
  nearly-empty meter collapsed into an orientation-less dot. Butt caps
  keep the 12 o'clock origin readable.

usageColor now emits comma-separated hsl(): VS Code webviews can run on
Chromium old enough to drop the space-separated form, silently losing the
stroke color.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses review feedback on #18.

Adds an active describe block for the contextPercentage contract, which
had no coverage - the existing compileChatMessages tests are describe.skip
with a stale positional signature.

The tests are deliberately scoped, and the block says so: they pin the
range invariant but do NOT fail if the clamp is removed. A grid search
over context lengths, max token counts and conversation sizes found no
input that drives the raw ratio above 1, because compileChatMessages
throws whenever the window is too small, before the ratio is computed.
The 786% came from a wrong denominator - a client configured for 32768
against a server serving 288768 - which this function cannot observe.
One test pins that throw so the guard is not mistaken for the reachable
path and removed as dead code.

Also expands the comment on the meter's track. Review suggested restoring
the complementary remaining-arc; the full ring is deliberate, because the
arc form vanished at 100% and collapsed into a capped blob at low
percentages. The comment now records that so the tradeoff is not
relitigated from the rendered output alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The meter set width/height as SVG attributes while the heroicons sharing
its toolbar row (AtSymbolIcon, PhotoIcon) are sized with Tailwind h-3 w-3.
Both are nominally 12px, but the attributes sit outside Tailwind's sizing
and left the meter visibly off against its neighbours.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ScrewTSW added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
Addresses review feedback on #18.

The track comment claimed an empty context shows "a mark at 12 o'clock",
but the used arc is gated on `percent > 0`, so at 0% only the ring is
drawn. It also blamed the earlier complementary arc's removal on
geometry degrading at 100%. That was wrong: the arc was hardcoded
#1a1a1a at 0.85 opacity and was invisible on a dark theme. The ring
inherits currentColor instead.

Also records why the contextPercentage block runs while the
compileChatMessages block above it is skipped. Those tests call the old
positional signature and fail on `msgs` being undefined - stale against
the options-object API, not flaky, so the skip is not a precedent for
new tests on the same path.

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  • This comment points to countTokens.ts:497 as the location where compileChatMessages throws, but the error is actually raised at the knownContextLength !== undefined && inputTokensAvailable < 0 check. Referring to the guard condition (or removing the line number) will keep this accurate over time.
    // The `availableTokens > 0` guard in the ratio is defence in depth: with a
    // known context length, compileChatMessages throws at countTokens.ts:497
    // before it can be reached (1020 - 20.4 - 1000 < 0). Pinning that here so
    // the guard is not mistaken for the reachable path and "simplified" away.
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Comment on lines +189 to +193
// Scope, honestly: these tests pin the range invariant, but they do NOT
// fail if the clamp is removed. A grid search over context lengths, max
// token counts, and conversation sizes found no input that drives the raw
// ratio above 1 - `compileChatMessages` throws at countTokens.ts:497
// whenever the window is too small, before the ratio is computed. The
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Addresses review feedback on #18.

The track comment claimed an empty context shows "a mark at 12 o'clock",
but the used arc is gated on `percent > 0`, so at 0% only the ring is
drawn. It also blamed the earlier complementary arc's removal on
geometry degrading at 100%. That was wrong: the arc was hardcoded
#1a1a1a at 0.85 opacity and was invisible on a dark theme. The ring
inherits currentColor instead.

Also records why the contextPercentage block runs while the
compileChatMessages block above it is skipped. Those tests call the old
positional signature and fail on `msgs` being undefined - stale against
the options-object API, not flaky, so the skip is not a precedent for
new tests on the same path.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The meter now always renders, but it can still present misleading “100% remaining”/ARIA text before contextPercentage is computed, which should be handled explicitly.

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gui/src/components/mainInput/ContextStatus.tsx:156

  • aria-label currently always announces a computed ${remaining}% value (derived from (contextPercentage ?? 0)), which can be misleading before the first real estimate is set. Align the accessible label with the tooltip by handling the undefined case explicitly.
        className="h-3 w-3 shrink-0"
        role="img"
        aria-label={`${remaining}% of context remaining`}
      >
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Comment on lines +107 to +110
<div className="flex flex-col gap-0 text-left text-xs">
<span className="inline-block">
{`${remaining}% of context remaining.`}
</span>
Comment on lines +189 to +199
// Scope, honestly: these tests pin the range invariant, but they do NOT
// fail if the clamp is removed. A grid search over context lengths, max
// token counts, and conversation sizes found no input that drives the raw
// ratio above 1 - `compileChatMessages` throws on its
// `knownContextLength !== undefined && inputTokensAvailable < 0` guard
// whenever the window is too small, before the ratio is computed. The
// reported 786% came from a *wrong denominator* (the client configured
// 32768 against a server serving 288768), which this function cannot
// observe. Treat the clamp as defence in depth for that class of
// misconfiguration, and these as a guard on the contract rather than a
// regression test for the clamp itself.
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Context meter renders outside input widget and reports impossible percentages (786%)

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