Codex credits are draining while idle / not actively used

I’ve got 2 bots running 16 hours per day everyday. Both running 5.3 codex in CLI. 10000 credits lasts me about 5 days. I just ran out and recharged again and it’s on day 5 so it’s still about the same for me. I think what you need to do is constantly start new sessions like I do every 1 million tokens spent within a session otherwise you start to incur what I’ve started to call token taxes. You just need to keep all you work planned and tracked in local docs instead of relying on the models fragile context window. If you’re still burning tokens when at idle then that means something else is still running.