diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index f0f1503..fc19730 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@agentmuxai/muxcode",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.8.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@agentmuxai/muxcode",
-      "version": "0.7.0",
+      "version": "0.8.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@anthropic-ai/sdk": "^0.128.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6c25782..c818c2f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@agentmuxai/muxcode",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.8.0",
   "description": "First-party agentic loop CLI for AgentMux — local GGUF inference via llama-server, cloud APIs, full MCP tool execution",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {
diff --git a/src/backends/local.ts b/src/backends/local.ts
index ae9716e..7115934 100644
--- a/src/backends/local.ts
+++ b/src/backends/local.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import path from 'path';
 import { existsSync } from 'fs';
-import { getServerUrl } from '../llama-server/manager.js';
+import { contextSizeFor, getServerUrl } from '../llama-server/manager.js';
 import { muxHome } from '../llama-server/acquire.js';
 import { listInstalled } from '../models/list.js';
 import type { CompleteOptions, CompletionResponse, IBackend, McpTool, Message, StreamSink } from '../types.js';
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export class LocalBackend implements IBackend {
   private modelPath: string;
   private onProgress?: (pct: number, label: string) => void;
   readonly model: string;
+  readonly contextWindow: number;
 
   constructor(
     modelName: string,
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ export class LocalBackend implements IBackend {
   ) {
     this.modelPath = resolveModelPath(modelName);
     this.model = path.basename(this.modelPath, '.gguf');
+    this.contextWindow = contextSizeFor(this.modelPath);
     this.onProgress = onProgress;
   }
 
diff --git a/src/cli.ts b/src/cli.ts
index 5e33157..64d3b7e 100644
--- a/src/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli.ts
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ export function buildCli(): Command {
             baseUrl: opts.baseUrl,
             onProgress: (pct, label) => emitter.loading(`${label} (${pct}%)`),
           });
+          if (backend.contextWindow) emitter.setContextWindow(backend.model, backend.contextWindow);
         } catch (err) {
           // Ensure init always precedes the error event
           if (!initEmitted) emitter.init(opts.model ?? 'auto', [], [], opts.permissionMode);
diff --git a/src/emit/stream-json.ts b/src/emit/stream-json.ts
index 25b90e4..4c38de9 100644
--- a/src/emit/stream-json.ts
+++ b/src/emit/stream-json.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ export class StreamJsonEmitter implements StreamSink {
   readonly sessionId: string;
   private startMs: number;
   private format: OutputFormat;
+  // The model's context window, when the backend knows it, and every model id
+  // it has been reported under: the backend's own name and whatever
+  // message_start carried (a server may answer under another id).
+  private contextWindow?: number;
+  private windowModels = new Set<string>();
 
   constructor(sessionId?: string, format: OutputFormat = 'stream-json') {
     this.sessionId = sessionId ?? `mux-${randomBytes(8).toString('hex')}`;
@@ -66,7 +71,14 @@ export class StreamJsonEmitter implements StreamSink {
 
   // ── StreamSink: the model's response as it streams ─────────────────────
 
+  /** The context window `model` runs with; reported in the result's `modelUsage`. */
+  setContextWindow(model: string, contextWindow: number) {
+    this.contextWindow = contextWindow;
+    this.windowModels.add(model);
+  }
+
   messageStart(id: string, model: string, usage: Usage) {
+    if (this.contextWindow != null && model) this.windowModels.add(model);
     this.streamEvent({
       type: 'message_start',
       message: { id, type: 'message', role: 'assistant', model, content: [], stop_reason: null, usage: wireUsage(usage) },
@@ -167,6 +179,11 @@ export class StreamJsonEmitter implements StreamSink {
       total_cost_usd: t.costUsd,
       cost_usd: t.costUsd,
       usage: wireUsage(t.usage),
+      // Claude Code's per-model report; AgentMux's context meter takes the
+      // window from `modelUsage[<message.model>].contextWindow`.
+      ...(this.contextWindow != null
+        ? { modelUsage: Object.fromEntries([...this.windowModels].map(m => [m, { contextWindow: this.contextWindow }])) }
+        : {}),
     });
   }
 
diff --git a/src/llama-server/manager.ts b/src/llama-server/manager.ts
index 34cedd2..1412478 100644
--- a/src/llama-server/manager.ts
+++ b/src/llama-server/manager.ts
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ export async function getServerUrl(
 
   const binPath = await ensureLlamaServer(onProgress);
   const port = await findFreePort(8080);
-  const meta = readModelMeta(modelPath);
-  const ctxSize = meta?.context_window ?? 4096;
+  const ctxSize = contextSizeFor(modelPath);
 
   const proc = spawn(binPath, [
     '--model', modelPath,
@@ -139,6 +138,15 @@ function isPortFree(port: number): Promise<boolean> {
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * The context size llama-server runs `modelPath` with: the model's
+ * `context_window` from its sidecar metadata, else 4096. The effective window
+ * of a local model, so it is also what `run` reports as the window.
+ */
+export function contextSizeFor(modelPath: string): number {
+  return readModelMeta(modelPath)?.context_window ?? 4096;
+}
+
 function readModelMeta(modelPath: string): { context_window?: number } | null {
   const metaPath = modelPath + '.json';
   try {
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index 9d63676..92ab7e4 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ export interface CompleteOptions {
 export interface IBackend {
   /** The model requested (backends report the model that answered on each response). */
   readonly model: string;
+  /**
+   * The context window the model runs with, when the backend knows it (a local
+   * model: the size llama-server is started with). Reported in the result's
+   * `modelUsage`, where AgentMux's context meter reads it. Absent for remote
+   * backends, whose window muxcode doesn't know.
+   */
+  readonly contextWindow?: number;
   complete(messages: Message[], tools: McpTool[], sink: StreamSink, opts?: CompleteOptions): Promise<CompletionResponse>;
 }
 
diff --git a/test/context-window.test.mjs b/test/context-window.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f94e15f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/context-window.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+// The result frame reports the model's context window the way Claude Code
+// does (`modelUsage[<model>].contextWindow`), so AgentMux's context meter
+// shows "tokens / window" for a muxcode pane instead of "tokens ctx".
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import { StreamJsonEmitter } from '../dist/emit/stream-json.js';
+
+const usage = { inputTokens: 1200, outputTokens: 5, cacheCreationInputTokens: 0, cacheReadInputTokens: 0 };
+const totals = { usage, costUsd: 0, numTurns: 1, durationApiMs: 10 };
+
+/** The frames `run` writes to stdout. */
+function capture(fn) {
+  const frames = [];
+  const write = process.stdout.write;
+  process.stdout.write = (chunk) => {
+    for (const line of String(chunk).split('\n')) if (line.trim()) frames.push(JSON.parse(line));
+    return true;
+  };
+  try {
+    fn();
+  } finally {
+    process.stdout.write = write;
+  }
+  return frames;
+}
+
+test('no window known (a remote backend): no modelUsage', () => {
+  const frames = capture(() => {
+    const e = new StreamJsonEmitter('s1');
+    e.messageStart('m1', 'gpt-4o', usage);
+    e.done('ok', totals);
+  });
+  const result = frames.find(f => f.type === 'result');
+  assert.equal(result.modelUsage, undefined);
+});
+
+test('a local model reports its window under its own id and the id message_start carried', () => {
+  const frames = capture(() => {
+    const e = new StreamJsonEmitter('s1');
+    e.setContextWindow('qwen2.5-coder-7b-q4', 32768);
+    e.messageStart('m1', 'served-model-alias', usage);
+    e.done('ok', totals);
+  });
+  const result = frames.find(f => f.type === 'result');
+  assert.deepEqual(result.modelUsage, {
+    'qwen2.5-coder-7b-q4': { contextWindow: 32768 },
+    'served-model-alias': { contextWindow: 32768 },
+  });
+});
+
+test('an error result reports it too', () => {
+  const frames = capture(() => {
+    const e = new StreamJsonEmitter('s1');
+    e.setContextWindow('local-model', 4096);
+    e.error('boom');
+  });
+  const result = frames.find(f => f.type === 'result');
+  assert.equal(result.is_error, true);
+  assert.deepEqual(result.modelUsage, { 'local-model': { contextWindow: 4096 } });
+});