diff --git a/src/agent_harness/__main__.py b/src/agent_harness/__main__.py
index e1a737e..089eead 100644
--- a/src/agent_harness/__main__.py
+++ b/src/agent_harness/__main__.py
@@ -724,6 +724,7 @@ def live_routes() -> dict[str, Chain]:
             github=GitHub(args.repo) if args.repo else None,
             base_branch=args.base,
             ui_base_url=args.session_host,
+            context_budget=args.context_budget,
             on_event=emit,
             push=not args.no_push,
             project_id=args.project,
diff --git a/src/agent_harness/session_executor.py b/src/agent_harness/session_executor.py
index 01ce3d7..c897868 100644
--- a/src/agent_harness/session_executor.py
+++ b/src/agent_harness/session_executor.py
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ def __init__(
         base_branch: str = "main",
         branch_prefix: str = "harness/",
         worktrees: Path | None = None,
+        context_budget: int = DEFAULT_CONTEXT_BUDGET,
         ui_base_url: str = "",
         session_max_age: float = DEFAULT_MAX_AGE_SECONDS,
         on_event: Callable[[dict[str, Any]], None] | None = None,
@@ -195,6 +196,17 @@ def __init__(
         self.base_branch = base_branch
         self.branch_prefix = branch_prefix
         self.worktrees = Path(worktrees) if worktrees else self.repo.parent / ".harness-work"
+        #: How much of a touched file the reviewer may be shown. Hardcoded to
+        #: the default when the review helpers were shared, which meant a
+        #: 272 KB file was always "too large to include" — and the reviewer
+        #: said so and rejected, correctly, for evidence it had been denied:
+        #:
+        #:   "web/src/main.tsx is not included in full and I cannot inspect
+        #:    the surrounding markup"
+        #:
+        #: The headless executor has taken this from configuration since #150.
+        #: Session mode reviewing large files needs the same lever.
+        self.context_budget = context_budget
         self.ui_base_url = ui_base_url
         self.session_max_age = session_max_age
         self.on_event = on_event
@@ -774,7 +786,7 @@ def _review(
             diff=diff[:20000],
             # The same helpers the headless reviewer uses, so a correction to
             # either cannot land in one executor and not the other (#167).
-            context=review_context(tree, diff, DEFAULT_CONTEXT_BUDGET),
+            context=review_context(tree, diff, self.context_budget),
             checks=review_checks_prompt(self.checks.commands),
         )
         try:
diff --git a/tests/test_reviewer.py b/tests/test_reviewer.py
index e63c4c8..418c0ea 100644
--- a/tests/test_reviewer.py
+++ b/tests/test_reviewer.py
@@ -274,3 +274,28 @@ def test_a_short_verdict_is_kept_whole() -> None:
     from agent_harness.executor import review_reason
 
     assert review_reason("REJECTED\nToo narrow.") == "REJECTED\nToo narrow."
+
+
+def test_the_session_reviewer_budget_is_configurable(tmp_path: Any) -> None:
+    """A 272 KB file was always "too large to include", so the reviewer was
+    denied the evidence it then correctly rejected for lacking:
+
+        "web/src/main.tsx is not included in full and I cannot inspect the
+         surrounding markup"
+
+    The headless executor has taken this from configuration since #150; when
+    the review helpers were shared the session side got the default hardcoded
+    instead, which is a ceiling no deployment could raise.
+    """
+    from agent_harness.executor import DEFAULT_CONTEXT_BUDGET
+    from agent_harness.session_executor import SessionExecutor
+    from agent_harness.work import WorkQueue
+
+    queue = WorkQueue(str(tmp_path / "w.sqlite"))
+    host = type("Host", (), {})()
+
+    default = SessionExecutor(queue, host, tmp_path)
+    raised = SessionExecutor(queue, host, tmp_path, context_budget=700_000)
+
+    assert default.context_budget == DEFAULT_CONTEXT_BUDGET, "unchanged by default"
+    assert raised.context_budget == 700_000, "and a deployment can raise it"