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GLM 5.2 context window override is 1M, the served window is 256k #3833

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What happens

Sessions on @cf/zai-org/glm-5.2 grow past the window the backend actually serves, then every turn fails. Gateway logs show a long run of rejections for one session, all on that model:

The estimated number of input and maximum output tokens (44xxxx) exceeded this model context window limit (262144)
Requested token count exceeds the model's maximum context length of 256000 tokens

MODEL_CONTEXT_WINDOW_OVERRIDES in packages/agent/src/gateway-models.ts declares the model at 1_000_000, and it is applied as Math.max(gatewayValue, override), so it also overrides what the gateway advertises. Nothing stops the transcript before the backend rejects it.

Why it is worse than a plain rejection

Once GLM rejects the turn, the SDK retries under FALLBACK_MODEL (claude-opus-4-8) with the same assembled body. That body was built for a non-thinking model, so it carries a clear_thinking_20251015 context-management edit with thinking off, which Anthropic hard-rejects:

API Error: 400 `clear_thinking_20251015` strategy requires `thinking` to be enabled or adaptive

That is the error the user actually sees, on every message, with no hint that the real problem is an oversized transcript. PostHog/posthog#73838 makes the gateway strip the orphaned edit so the fallback can succeed, but the session still should not have reached 400k+ tokens on a 256k model.

Suggested fix

Set the override to what the backend serves (or drop it and let the gateway's advertised value stand), and confirm the value used by the Modal-served GLM backend before picking a number. Worth checking separately whether the context window the harness reports actually gates compaction, or only the context meter - if it is only the meter, the overflow needs a different lever.

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