Incorrect context usage display in status bar
What version of the VS Code extension are you using?
Version 0.5.17
Which IDE are you using?
Visual Studio Code – Insiders 1.105.0-insider
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26120.0 x64
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Open a Codex chat/session (gpt-5-codex).
Paste a long prompt to increase context usage.
Check the status bar/tooltip that shows context counts and percent
What is the expected behavior?
Percentage should be within 0–100% and keep its decimal (e.g., 74.46%, 27.76%)
Numerator/denominator should be formatted consistently:
- either both scaled with k (e.g., 20.3k / 272k tokens)
- both raw with grouping (e.g., 20,293 / 272,000 tokens)
No mixing of thousands grouping with a k suffix
What do you see instead?
Status bar shows inflated percentages like 7461% and 2762% where the real values are ~74.46% and 27.76%
Numerator renders as 20,293k (reads as “20,293 thousands” ≈ 20.293M) though it means ~20.3k
Screenshots:
<img width="836" height="222" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b7b42edb-2ea1-444f-bdf2-2f5a3b17a703" />
<img width="832" height="223" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/51958666-118a-40dd-81b6-7d25646c715d" />
Additional information
Observed progression (from a single session, same 272k limit):
12k / 272k tokens → 4%
24k / 272k tokens → 9%
209k / 272k tokens → 77%
251k / 272k tokens → 92%
320k / 272k tokens → 118% ← exceeds 100%
344k / 272k tokens → 127% ← exceeds 100%
<img width="828" height="224" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5f674a54-2bee-4304-ae70-363c5cf87380" />
<img width="836" height="229" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b42b3883-828b-43b1-b2fa-25f66609ecb0" />
<img width="835" height="294" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/da438afa-fff4-428a-aaee-6c5a7a049eb6" />
<img width="824" height="275" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4bb23499-4cb8-4936-bef7-cf67b2537dc1" />
<img width="850" height="228" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b82c0031-79c6-432a-af51-a22c73d676ba" />
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Thanks for the report. The fix will go out in the next release.
The fix is included in version
0.4.18, which is already live on the VS Code Marketplace and should be rolling out to Cursor shortly.