diff --git a/src/daemon/context-windows.test.ts b/src/daemon/context-windows.test.ts
index 0ca6ebc..b1f2e79 100644
--- a/src/daemon/context-windows.test.ts
+++ b/src/daemon/context-windows.test.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,23 @@ describe("contextWindowForModel", () => {
     expect(contextWindowForModel("claude-sonnet-4-5-1m")).toBe(ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT);
   });
 
+  test("bracket [1m] form -> 1M (the form Claude Code actually emits)", () => {
+    // Regression: these resolved to 200k, so asking EXPLICITLY for the 1M
+    // variant sized the window WORSE than the bare `opus` alias — observed on
+    // a live session running `opus[1m]`, which reported ~500% occupancy and a
+    // 5x-too-small fork seed budget.
+    expect(contextWindowForModel("opus[1m]")).toBe(ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT);
+    expect(contextWindowForModel("sonnet[1m]")).toBe(ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT);
+    expect(contextWindowForModel("claude-opus-5[1m]")).toBe(ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT);
+    // Case-insensitive, like every other branch.
+    expect(contextWindowForModel("OPUS[1M]")).toBe(ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT);
+  });
+
+  test("haiku stays 200k in bracket form too", () => {
+    // haiku has no 1M variant; a bracket suffix must not manufacture one.
+    expect(contextWindowForModel("haiku")).toBe(DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW);
+  });
+
   test("unknown claude model -> conservative 200k miss", () => {
     expect(contextWindowForModel("claude-sonnet-4-0")).toBe(DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW);
     expect(contextWindowForModel("custom-model")).toBe(DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW);
diff --git a/src/daemon/context-windows.ts b/src/daemon/context-windows.ts
index fea9cc3..33b7527 100644
--- a/src/daemon/context-windows.ts
+++ b/src/daemon/context-windows.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,14 @@ export function contextWindowForModel(modelId: string | undefined | null): numbe
   for (const family of ONE_MILLION_FAMILIES) {
     if (m.includes(family)) return ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT;
   }
-  if (m.includes("-1m")) return ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT;
+  // The 1M variant appears in two forms: the suffix on a full model id
+  // (`claude-opus-4-5-1m`) and the BRACKET form Claude Code uses on aliases
+  // and ids alike (`opus[1m]`, `claude-opus-5[1m]`). Matching only the former
+  // meant an EXPLICIT 1M request resolved to 200k while the bare `opus` alias
+  // correctly resolved to 1M — inverting the caller's intent, and under-sizing
+  // the window that drives the percent-of-window display, the fork seed budget
+  // (seedBudgetChars), and auto-rotate occupancy.
+  if (m.includes("-1m") || m.includes("[1m]")) return ONE_MILLION_CONTEXT;
 
   // Aliases (matching the daemon's model resolver: opus → Opus 4.8,
   // sonnet → Sonnet 5 — both 1M; haiku → Haiku 4.5 at 200k).