~unusable for longer sessions~ around 360k tokens used (so ~64% remaining on 1M), opus 4.7 starts wrapping every next action in terminal language even though the work is still going. words like:
- “one more check / one more test / one more variant”
- “final X in this session”
- “trying one more”
- “honest picture” / “honest status” / “here’s where we stand”
- structured “wrap up” summary blocks mid task and it keeps fucking going… 5-10 turns in a row, each one re-labeled “the final one”. it’s not stopping, it’s just narrating itself as if it were stopping. above and below the band, it acts like two different models RATES Rate that any assistant text turn contains closure-framing language, bucketed by ctx tokens used (opus 4.x only, all my sessions): | ctx used | turns | rate | |------------|--------|------| | 0-100k | 12,906 | 1.5% | | 100-200k | 8,993 | 2.0% | | 200-300k | 4,712 | 2.0% | | 300-360k | 1,837 | 2.3% | | 360-400k | 673 | 4.3% | | 400-500k | 1,325 | 3.9% | | 500k+ | 990 | 4.9% | The rate roughly doubles past 360k and stays 3x baseline above 500k. high-ctx turns only (>=300k), bucketed by month the session was last touched: | month | turns | match | rate | |---------|-------|-------|------| | 2026-04 | 730 | 1 | 0.1% | | 2026-05 | 4,095 | 171 | 4.2% | 40x rate increase month over month at the same ctx band FIXES none Anyone else seeings this issue specifically in the 360k tokens / 64% remaining band? setup: claude code 2.1.150 (native installer), darwin 25.5, opus 4.7 1M context. ~75 of the sessions in my corpus pushed past 250k context. last 30 days, mixed long agentic and interactive coding work submitted by /u/swallace36
Originally posted by u/swallace36 on r/ClaudeCode
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