What happened
After successful context compaction, the Desktop composer's context-usage gauge can continue displaying the token count/percentage from the pre-compaction request. That measurement describes the old prompt, so presenting it as current usage is misleading.Most users are sensitive to context usage. If the displayed usage still reflects the pre-compaction amount, they may think compaction didn’t succeed.
Expected: keep the existing gauge icon and display the localized Usage / 用量 label until a subsequent provider request supplies a fresh measurement. The tooltip should read “Context has been compacted. Usage will update when the next request completes.” (简体中文：上下文已压缩，用量将在下一次请求完成后更新。), with equivalent Traditional Chinese copy. Restore the percentage when a fresh measurement becomes available. A failed-open compaction should retain the valid reading because the raw history was still sent.
How to reproduce
- Run a Desktop conversation until a provider request has reported token usage and the composer displays a percentage.
- Run
/compact successfully.
- Before another provider request settles, inspect the context gauge: it can still show the previous percentage.
- For mid-turn compaction, the indicator should recover as soon as a post-compaction request settles, without waiting for the entire turn to finish.
Environment
- Surface: Desktop (conversation composer and WorkHub composer)
- Source baseline:
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- Identified from source and regression tests; no specific OS/provider restriction established.
Logs, screenshots, or additional context
What happened
After successful context compaction, the Desktop composer's context-usage gauge can continue displaying the token count/percentage from the pre-compaction request. That measurement describes the old prompt, so presenting it as current usage is misleading.Most users are sensitive to context usage. If the displayed usage still reflects the pre-compaction amount, they may think compaction didn’t succeed.
Expected: keep the existing gauge icon and display the localized
Usage/用量label until a subsequent provider request supplies a fresh measurement. The tooltip should read “Context has been compacted. Usage will update when the next request completes.” (简体中文：上下文已压缩，用量将在下一次请求完成后更新。), with equivalent Traditional Chinese copy. Restore the percentage when a fresh measurement becomes available. A failed-open compaction should retain the valid reading because the raw history was still sent.How to reproduce
/compactsuccessfully.Environment
feb9cf22fLogs, screenshots, or additional context