Context window ignores selected limit

“I have used the 1M context option on GPT-5.6 Luna only once and now all my GPT models are stuck at 1M even though I've switched back to 272k context window.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/cursor/issues/2317/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Quiet. No reports in the last two weeks, down from 2 a week at the late-September peak.

Context window ignores selected limit and grows to 1M. The context chart shows 1M (or 500k on grok 4.7) even though a smaller window like 300k or 272k is selected.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: Model context settings
Versions: 3.13.21 to 3.21.12
Platforms: Linux, Windows
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow.

Original reports3, newest first

Sep 23, 2026The token limit does not work#172794
Sep 22, 2026Opus 5.5 Stuck at 1M Context!?#172707
Sep 17, 2026Pro models stuck at 1M context size. Can't switch back to 272k#172008

Context window ignores selected limit

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Is this your bug?

Original reports3, newest first

Do you work on Cursor?