The import list reported a file size, which predicts the wrong thing. Most
of a large transcript is history from before a compaction, and the model is
not given it again: of the 133 MB session behind the 2026-08-29 incident,
99% of the bytes sat before its last compaction summary.
So each row now carries the tokens the model was actually holding at the
last turn -- the input side of the most recent assistant message's usage,
prompt plus both cache figures, which the CLI records itself rather than
anything inferred from the file. The two disagree in exactly the way that
makes the size misleading. Measured on this machine: `ai-app` is an 80 MB
file with 150k of context, while `ai-app-backup` is 3 MB with 481k. The
smaller file is the more expensive one to continue.
Absent rather than zero when no turn has recorded usage, since a session
with no turns has no figure rather than a figure of none.
The row is three lines instead of one run of separators:
path cut at the head, keeping the tail, and the only thing here that
is cut -- one long value with no natural break, where the lines
below it are short enough to wrap
stats named, context, lines, size
warning only when there is one, in the warning colour
The warning gets its own line and its own colour because it differs in kind
from the stats rather than in degree: those describe the session, it says
whether taking it is safe at all. Colour makes it findable, the words make
it actionable -- "open somewhere else" and "we could not check" are not
distinguishable by shade.
Titles no longer ellipse either; they wrap.
Looked at on the emulator rather than reasoned about, including the states
that are not the default: a long path truncating, a row with no warning,
and a row with no context figure.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
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