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Claude Code's own fixed per-turn overhead (system prompt + tool schemas,
~36.4K tokens measured live) can exceed a small local model's entire real
context before any conversation history exists to compact — confirmed
live twice as an in:0 out:0 failure on the very first message sent.
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS cannot fix this: it only governs when
history gets compacted, and there is none on message one.
- exceedsSafeContextFloor() (custom-model-routes.ts): true when a CLI's
registry entry declares contextLengthVar (currently only claude) and
the model's discovered context is below CLAUDE_MIN_SAFE_CONTEXT_TOKENS
(40000). A no-op for every other CLI by construction.
- Both apply routes (POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-model and the
quick-start customModel path) check this before the swap-conflict
check and before launching/restarting anything, returning
{requiresContextWarning, modelId, contextLength, minSafeContextTokens}
— skipped when confirmed:true.
- Frontend: #customModelContextWarningModal + _confirmContextWarning/
_resolveContextWarningConfirm (session-ui.js), wired into both
_quickStartWithCustomModelConfirm and _runCustomModelEntryViaRestart
(the path Claude actually uses) ahead of the swap-confirmation check.
Explains the fix in-modal: give the model an explicit larger -c/
--ctx-size in llama-swap instead of relying on --fit-ctx, which
optimizes for the biggest model that fits rather than the biggest
context.
Tests added for the route-level warning/confirm/skip cases and the
frontend modal + launch-flow wiring. Docs updated (custom-model-
endpoints.md, wiki/Custom-Model-Endpoints.md) and the PR's running
changeset extended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqZeHrRS6DYcGcGX2p9EwG