diff --git a/docs/2-handbook/hives/dashboard.md b/docs/2-handbook/hives/dashboard.md
index 8a64af06b..c5ce56e31 100644
--- a/docs/2-handbook/hives/dashboard.md
+++ b/docs/2-handbook/hives/dashboard.md
@@ -201,8 +201,7 @@ strip entries — `📊 stats`, `🖥 screen` when GUI is enabled, plus any
 agent-declared `dashboardLinks` extras), `status_text` / `status_set_at` (agent
 self-reported status — the `(set N ago)` chip carries a `data-set-at`
 stamp and ticks every 30s to stay fresh across the long-lived keyed row
-cache), `rate_limited`, `ctx_tokens` / `context_window_tokens`
-(context-window badge data). hive-agent is the single source
+cache), `rate_limited`. hive-agent is the single source
 of truth for all of these. The dashboard resolves each `AgentLink.kind`
 against a per-agent base URL depending on whether hive-gateway is in
 front (`StateSnapshot.gateway_enabled`, sourced from the
@@ -225,8 +224,7 @@ as a unit.
 **When the container is stopped** (`ContainerView.running = false`),
 the dashboard skips the async `dashboard-state` fetch entirely (the agent
 web server is down), so a single badge replaces the badge chain,
-the nav strip is empty, and status text / rate-limited / ctx
-badges disappear. The agent icon goes straight to the dimmed
+the nav strip is empty, and status text and the rate-limited badge disappear. The agent icon goes straight to the dimmed
 `/favicon.svg` fallback instead of attempting a doomed load from the
 container's URL. Static fields — `pending_reminders`, `parent`, `config` link — remain visible
 regardless of run state.
@@ -258,7 +256,7 @@ start / stop / restart / rebuild / destroy). An agent can carry
 running alongside a `stop_for_update` on the same agent — and each
 renders as its own independent badge instead of collapsing
 into one label, matching the existing multi-badge convention this
-line already uses for `paused`/model/ctx.
+line already uses for `paused`.
 
 Any pending badge means the row is actually **running** something
 right now (see **Pending-badge derivation** below); every row
@@ -295,24 +293,6 @@ banner below is the only queued-work indicator on this tab, and it
 reads the narrow `/api/jobq/rollup` endpoint rather than the full
 graph.
 
-**Active model badge** (`model · <name>`, blue) appears when the
-container is running and the harness has persisted a model name (the
-`active_model` field of `hyperhive-harness.json`, the consolidated
-harness state file in the agent's state dir). Read by hive-c0re's
-`ContainerView` (`read_active_model`); absent until the agent has
-completed at least one turn, and hive-c0re suppresses stale values
-for stopped containers.
-
-**`ctx · Nk` chip** shows the agent's last-turn context size,
-populated from `DashboardState.ctx_tokens` (absent until the
-agent has completed at least one turn). The chip colour (green /
-yellow / red) keys off `DashboardState.context_window_tokens`
-(the real context window for the model the agent last ran on,
-authoritative from the agent side); the badge goes yellow ≥ 50%
-and red ≥ 75% of that window, matching the harness compaction
-watermarks. When the window value is absent the badge falls back
-to fixed 100k / 150k thresholds.
-
 **Per-agent `⋮` overflow menu** — a `⋮` button appears on the right
 edge of each container row. Selecting it opens a small dropdown with
 per-agent actions and navigation links. Contents:
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js
index 9344ba65e..d9e21b4da 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js
@@ -13,17 +13,6 @@ import { containersState } from "./state.js";
 import { closeAllMenus } from "@hive/shared/hive-menu.js";
 import "./agent-menu/hive-agent-menu.js"; // registers <hive-agent-menu> — side-effect import
 
-// Context-window badge thresholds. Preferred source is each container's
-// `context_window_tokens` from /api/state (the real window for the model
-// it last ran on) — thresholds are then 75% / 50% of it, matching the
-// harness compaction watermarks (compact at 75%, auto-reset at 50%). The
-// fixed token constants are the fallback for when that field is absent
-// (agent has no turns yet, or no per-model config matched the model).
-const CTX_WARN_FRACTION = 0.75; // >= this share of the window -> red
-const CTX_CAUTION_FRACTION = 0.5; // >= this share of the window -> yellow
-const CTX_WARN_TOKENS = 150_000; // fallback red threshold    (~= 75% of 200k)
-const CTX_CAUTION_TOKENS = 100_000; // fallback yellow threshold (~= 50% of 200k)
-
 // ─── module-level state ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 // Keyed container row cache. Maps agent name -> { el: <li>, fingerprint }.
@@ -239,7 +228,7 @@ function sortedContainerRows(containers) {
 // Serialise the visible state of a container row into a stable string
 // for change-detection. Includes everything that affects what the row
 // renders — container fields, derived pending/selection state, and
-// link-base context. The async dashboard-state (nav strip, ctx badge,
+// link-base context. The async dashboard-state (nav strip,
 // status text) is intentionally excluded: it populates in-place and is
 // preserved when a row is reused.
 function containerRowFingerprint(
@@ -255,7 +244,6 @@ function containerRowFingerprint(
     failed: c.failed,
     paused: c.paused,
     needs_login: c.needs_login,
-    active_model: c.active_model,
     port: c.port,
     pending,
     opRunning,
@@ -349,7 +337,7 @@ function buildContainerLi(c, opts) {
     // Fetch the lean dashboard-state snapshot from the agent directly.
     // Populates: nav strip links (including the screen link that
     // c0re's disk-based build cannot detect), rate_limited badge,
-    // ctx-window badge, and self-reported status text.
+    // and self-reported status text.
     // Fails gracefully when the agent is starting up or the gateway
     // is not yet routing to it — badges simply don't appear.
     // Only runs when the row is first built (fingerprint changed) —
@@ -396,32 +384,6 @@ function buildContainerLi(c, opts) {
             ),
           );
         }
-        // ctx-window badge
-        if (ds.ctx_tokens != null) {
-          const k = Math.round(ds.ctx_tokens / 1000);
-          const win = ds.context_window_tokens;
-          const warn = win != null ? win * CTX_WARN_FRACTION : CTX_WARN_TOKENS;
-          const caution =
-            win != null ? win * CTX_CAUTION_FRACTION : CTX_CAUTION_TOKENS;
-          const ctxClass =
-            ds.ctx_tokens >= warn
-              ? "badge-ctx-warn"
-              : ds.ctx_tokens >= caution
-                ? "badge-ctx-caution"
-                : "badge-ctx-ok";
-          const title =
-            win != null
-              ? `last turn context: ${ds.ctx_tokens.toLocaleString()} / ${win.toLocaleString()} ` +
-                `tokens (${Math.round((ds.ctx_tokens / win) * 100)}% of the window)`
-              : `last turn context size: ${ds.ctx_tokens.toLocaleString()} tokens`;
-          head.append(
-            el(
-              "span",
-              { class: `hive-pill-sm ${ctxClass}`, title },
-              `ctx·${k}k`,
-            ),
-          );
-        }
         // -- agent status text (self-reported via set_status) ---------
         if (ds.status_text) {
           const nowUnix = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
@@ -470,7 +432,7 @@ function buildContainerLi(c, opts) {
   // (an absent `failed` — an older backend — is `undefined`, falsy,
   // so this degrades to the old single badge). `needs_login` is still
   // c0re-owned (reads auth sentinel files on the host). rate_limited /
-  // ctx / status_text are agent-owned and rendered by the async
+  // status_text is agent-owned and rendered by the async
   // dashboard-state fetch above.
   if (pending.length) {
     // One badge per pill — an agent can carry several transients at
@@ -540,19 +502,6 @@ function buildContainerLi(c, opts) {
       ),
     );
   }
-  if (c.active_model) {
-    head.append(
-      el(
-        "span",
-        {
-          class: "hive-pill-sm badge-model",
-          title: `active claude model: ${c.active_model}`,
-        },
-        c.active_model,
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-
   body.append(head);
 
   // Per-card action buttons (R3ST4RT / ST0P / ST4RT / R3BU1LD /
@@ -671,7 +620,7 @@ export function renderContainers(s) {
     let li;
     if (cached && cached.fingerprint === fp) {
       // Row unchanged — reuse the existing DOM node. The async
-      // dashboard-state (nav strip, ctx badge, status text) stays
+      // dashboard-state (nav strip, status text) stays
       // intact from the previous build, avoiding a redundant fetch.
       li = cached.el;
     } else {
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css
index 54799b90b..9157671bb 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css
@@ -112,28 +112,6 @@ code {
   border-color: var(--yellow);
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--yellow) 10%, transparent);
 }
-/* Active Claude model badge on dashboard container rows. */
-.badge-model {
-  color: var(--blue);
-  border-color: var(--blue);
-  opacity: 0.8;
-}
-/* Context-window usage badges on dashboard container rows. */
-.badge-ctx-ok {
-  color: var(--green);
-  border-color: var(--green);
-  opacity: 0.85;
-}
-.badge-ctx-caution {
-  color: var(--amber);
-  border-color: var(--amber);
-  text-shadow: 0 0 6px color-mix(in srgb, var(--amber) 50%, transparent);
-}
-.badge-ctx-warn {
-  color: var(--red);
-  border-color: var(--red);
-  text-shadow: 0 0 6px color-mix(in srgb, var(--red) 50%, transparent);
-}
 .badge-ok {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--green) 12%, transparent);
   color: var(--green);