5.5 xhigh requests going to 5.4
OpenAI Developer Community
June 20, 2026
@LarisaHaster @Agentify.sh
I’ve figured it out! Hopefully this might be able to help someone else!
Do NOT use “Approve for me” as the action approval setting in Codex it spawns a 5.4 sub agent and drains tokens aggressively.
thread_source = subagent
source = {"subagent":{"other":"guardian"}}
model = codex-auto-review
The setting you see selected in the screenshot below is the cause of all the 5.4 requests and rapid usage depletion:
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