An image counted as half a million tokens: the context estimate measured its
base64 as text, so a 1-3 MB screenshot read as "context at 150-280%" the
moment view_image added it, and the session compacted after every image.
An image now counts by its dimensions (28 px patches, at most 16k tokens, a
flat 1600 when unreadable) everywhere the CLI estimates -- the meter, pruning,
/context and the no-usage fallback of all five dialects. Images over 1600 px
or 500 KB are shrunk to 1600 px when ImageMagick is there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
