tengu_lapis_anchor_budget Not enough to sayNothing 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.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.196. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
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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.
- Budget is set via
totalTokensReminderBudgetin settings or theCLAUDE_CODE_TOTAL_TOKENS_REMINDER_BUDGETenvironment variable; defaults to 15,000,000 tokens (server-overridable viatengu_lapis_anchor_budget). - Unlike
countdown(which reflects live remaining context window),padded-countdownaccumulates 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.
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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