fix(gui): clamp context percentage and redraw meter as dual arcs - #18
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe 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. ChangesContext meter correction
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There are correctness/compatibility and packaging concerns (SVG color syntax/theme-hardcoding, plus the extension version bump being inconsistent with related artifacts like the lockfile).
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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
contextPercentageincompileChatMessages(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.
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| File | Description |
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| 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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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 >
0 guard’s zero-denominator branch is covered.
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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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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>
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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@gui/src/components/mainInput/InputToolbar.tsx`:
- Around line 100-104: Update the InputToolbar rendering around ContextStatus so
it remains visible below the xs breakpoint; move it outside the hidden xs:flex
container or give its wrapper visibility at all breakpoints, while keeping the
other optional controls responsive and preserving the existing !isInEdit
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countTokens.ts:497as the location wherecompileChatMessagesthrows, but the error is actually raised at theknownContextLength !== undefined && inputTokensAvailable < 0check. 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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| // 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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-labelcurrently 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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| <div className="flex flex-col gap-0 text-left text-xs"> | ||
| <span className="inline-block"> | ||
| {`${remaining}% of context remaining.`} | ||
| </span> |
| // Scope, honestly: these tests pin the range invariant, but they do NOT | ||
| // fail if the clamp is removed. A grid search over context lengths, max | ||
| // token counts, and conversation sizes found no input that drives the raw | ||
| // ratio above 1 - `compileChatMessages` throws on its | ||
| // `knownContextLength !== undefined && inputTokensAvailable < 0` guard | ||
| // whenever the window is too small, before the ratio is computed. The | ||
| // reported 786% came from a *wrong denominator* (the client configured | ||
| // 32768 against a server serving 288768), which this function cannot | ||
| // observe. Treat the clamp as defence in depth for that class of | ||
| // misconfiguration, and these as a guard on the contract rather than a | ||
| // regression test for the clamp itself. |
Closes #15.
The context meter rendered as a thin red line outside the chat input widget while reporting 786% of context filled. Two independent defects compounded.
Bug 1 — the percentage was never clamped
core/llm/countTokens.ts:Pruning only guarantees
currentTotal <= inputTokensAvailable, butinputTokensthen re-adds system, tool, and last-message tokens. When a model's declaredcontextLengthis small relative to that fixed overhead, the ratio exceeds 1 by a wide margin — 786% is ~7.86x.availableTokenscan also go negative ifcountingSafetyBuffer + minOutputTokens > contextLength, producing a negative percentage.Now clamped at the source, with the degenerate denominator guarded:
Bug 2 — that value became a CSS height
style={{ height:${percent}%}}on a 10px-tall box. At 786% the fill overflowed its container ~8x, inbg-errorred, 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:
currentColorat 0.3 opacity, always drawn.Theme-aware, so it inherits
text-descriptionlike the neighbouring icons.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
#1a1a1aat 0.85 opacityand 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 hiddenresponsive behaviour, and wrapped inHoverItemlike every other icon on that row.That wrapper was briefly removed during review, on the grounds that
ToolTiptags only its immediate child with
data-tooltip-id, so the wrapper's 4pxpadding 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, thenbox-content px-1 py-[2px]) measured as pixel-identical in isolation and werestill 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
largeArcflips correctly at 50%. A full circle is drawn as twohalf sweeps, since a single arc command cannot express one.
tsc --noEmitclean,prettier --checkclean,countTokenssuite 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.
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