{"version":"2.1.196","anchor":"padded-countdown-token-reminder-mode","canonical_anchor":"padded-countdown-token-reminder-mode","heading":"padded-countdown Token Reminder Mode","tier":null,"area":null,"scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.196\/e\/padded-countdown-token-reminder-mode","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.196","markdown":"### padded-countdown Token Reminder Mode\n\nA 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.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Budget is set via `totalTokensReminderBudget` in settings or the `CLAUDE_CODE_TOTAL_TOKENS_REMINDER_BUDGET` environment variable; defaults to 15,000,000 tokens (server-overridable via `tengu_lapis_anchor_budget`).\n- Unlike `countdown` (which reflects live remaining context window), `padded-countdown` accumulates spend across the full session lifetime including compacted-away context.\n- Useful for multi-agent sessions where individual context windows are small but total spend matters.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nNew mode (search for `\"padded-countdown\"` and `\"@internal Starting budget (tokens) for totalTokensReminder 'padded-countdown' mode\"`)\n\n- Flag `tengu_lapis_anchor_budget`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.196; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: 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."}