diff --git a/functions/_tide_item_kubectl.fish b/functions/_tide_item_kubectl.fish
index ab044b3..95bc93a 100644
--- a/functions/_tide_item_kubectl.fish
+++ b/functions/_tide_item_kubectl.fish
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 function _tide_item_kubectl
-    kubectl config view --minify --output 'jsonpath={.current-context}/{..namespace}' 2>/dev/null | read -l context &&
+    kubectl config view --minify --output 'jsonpath={.current-context}/{..namespace}' 2>/dev/null | string shorten -"$tide_kubectl_truncation_strategy"m"$tide_kubectl_truncation_length" | read -l context &&
         _tide_print_item kubectl $tide_kubectl_icon' ' (string replace -r '/(|default)$' '' $context)
 end