A new padded-countdown value for the totalTokensReminder setting counts down from a configurable token budget, tracking cumulative context spend monotonically across compactions and /clear operations.
Unlike countdown (which reflects live remaining context window), padded-countdown accumulates spend across the full session lifetime including compacted-away context.
Useful for multi-agent sessions where individual context windows are small but total spend matters.
Evidence
New mode (search for "padded-countdown" and "@internal Starting budget (tokens) for totalTokensReminder 'padded-countdown' mode")
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
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Feature flag
tengu_lapis_anchor_budgetNot enough to say
Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.196: not a boolean we can read
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Flag reading movedThe flag server now returns 15000000 for tengu_lapis_anchor_budget, read as this account.A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
Flag reading movedThe flag server now returns nothing at all, having stopped carrying it for tengu_lapis_anchor_budget, read as this account.A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
