diff --git a/src/core/chunkers/code.ts b/src/core/chunkers/code.ts
index 8145e98ac..5578a290a 100644
--- a/src/core/chunkers/code.ts
+++ b/src/core/chunkers/code.ts
@@ -1235,25 +1235,7 @@ export function estimateTokens(text: string): number {
     tiktokenInitialized = true;
   }
   if (tiktokenEncoder) {
-    try {
-      return tiktokenEncoder.encode(text).length;
-    } catch {
-      // Code legitimately contains tiktoken special-token strings (e.g. CLIP/GPT
-      // tokenizers embed the literal "<|endoftext|>"). The default encode() uses
-      // disallowed_special='all' and THROWS on those, crashing reindex-code on
-      // valid source files. For a token COUNT we don't need special-token
-      // semantics: re-encode treating them as ordinary text (never throws),
-      // heuristic only if even that fails.
-      try {
-        return (
-          tiktokenEncoder as unknown as {
-            encode: (s: string, allowed: string[], disallowed: string[]) => Uint32Array;
-          }
-        ).encode(text, [], []).length;
-      } catch {
-        return Math.max(1, Math.ceil(text.length / 4));
-      }
-    }
+    return tiktokenEncoder.encode(text).length;
   }
   return Math.max(1, Math.ceil(text.length / 4));
 }