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Lower desktop starting context

“A fresh session in the desktop app's Code tab starts with about 79k tokens in context before any real work.”

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Lower starting context in desktop app Code tab sessions. A fresh Code tab session starts at about 79k tokens versus about 13k in the terminal claude with the same config, connectors and plugins.

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Desktop Code tab
Versions
2.1.289
Platforms
macOS

Original reports1, newest first

  1. Desktop app Code tab: new sessions start at ~79k tokens of context vs ~13k in the terminal CLI with the same config#105328

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