Codex fail into looping for whole night with a goal
OpenAI Developer Community
May 17, 2026
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Codex agent asked for a minor work authorization which doesn’t exist in original goal or plan. Starting from 3am to 9am, drainout my $200 plan with 4-5 messages repeating every minute. Even with the /goal, agent should understand it’s failling into a loop and should work around… never going sleep after a goal is set
Any idea how to prevent this happens again, and I want my token limit reset.
session id could be share if it’s shareable
@codexapp Thank you
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