Incorrect context usage display in status bar

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Oct 4, 2025 by meAloex Closed Oct 6, 2025

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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