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A new setting can make the model picker default to the 1M-context model variant.
A new modelPrefer1mContext config, along with a per-model prefer1m field, makes the model picker start on the 1M-context variant of the default model for users who have no saved selection, instead of always defaulting to the standard context window.
Names in the bundlemodelPrefer1mContextprefer1m
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up prefer1m, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="modelprefer1mcontext" />Default to 1M context<br />`modelPrefer1mContext` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.28929.0 | — | When a user has no saved selection, start the picker on the 1M-context variant of the default…third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up modelPrefer1mContext, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="modelprefer1mcontext" />Default to 1M context<br />`modelPrefer1mContext` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.28929.0 | — | When a user has no saved selection, start the picker on the 1M-context variant of the default…third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up modelPrefer1mContext, on Configuration reference.