[BUG] Remove awareness of context from Claude

[tachyon-beep]

Preflight Checklist

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• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

When you first added this feature, I assumed it would be a good thing that let claude actively manage its context and suggest compacting at timely moments. What you've done instead is give an agent anxiety to the point where it feels comfortable completely blowing off my instructions as soon as free context drops below 20% and it starts 'worrying'.

Which is legitimately worse because it won't proactively tell you its cut corners.

What Should Happen?

It should follow my instructions in full regardless of how much context is left.

Error Messages/Logs

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Steps to Reproduce

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Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

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Claude Code Version

Latest / N/A

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

No response

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Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/9796
2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11362
3. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/7759

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[tachyon-beep]

This is actually getting worse. It was on 7% context free and I asked it to write a planning document and it instead decided (paraphrased) 'this is simple and I don't have much context left so I should just start coding'.

Then when I forced it to write a plan, it wrote one which was just 'do all the work' (since asking it to do any work, even writing a plan, on 7% context means you're going to get garbage output). Then it said 'ok the plan is done, lets get coding' and tried to start editing my code base with 0% context free.

You've given claude permission to do incomplete/bad work without telling the user if the context pressure gets too high and no user wants that.

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