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/goal looping through execution-time permission request burning through 25% weekly usage limits doing nothing #22833
Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.513.20950
What subscription do you have?
Pro
What platform is your computer?
macOS
What issue are you seeing?
Codex 5.5 Medium despite AGENTS.md, developer instructions, and prompting seems to get stuck in loops while in goal mode that cause it to seek verbal confirmation before it acts. This has happened a few times. This time, it got stuck doing it all night and burned through 25% of my weekly Pro usage limits asking for "explicit billing confirmation". Not acceptable.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Feedback ID: 019e28dd-7992-7892-a1ce-0e82108da4d6
What is the expected behavior?
Stop seeking verbal confirmation after a user requests an action, especially if permissions are set. Especially don't seek it out when in /goal and get stuck on a loop all night asking for confirmation via chat.
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etraut-openai commentedon May 15, 2026
The
/goalfeature works by compelling the agent to work toward the specified objective until the completion criteria are met. It sounds like you have provided conflicting completion criteria in that you've provided instructions to the agent to stop under certain circumstances. The/goalfeature will override this unless you provide the same stopping criteria in the goal objective.etraut-openai commentedon May 17, 2026
I'm working on a change that will address this.
goal: pause continuation loops on usage limits and blockers (#23094)
etraut-openai commentedon May 30, 2026
I've updated the
/goalfeature to allow the agent to stop if and when it hits an impasse. This prevents it from going into a permanent loop.Keesan12 commentedon Jun 5, 2026
Keesan12 commentedon Jun 6, 2026
EatMyTarts commentedon Jun 6, 2026
This has already been fixed 😂
goal: pause continuation loops on usage limits and blockers (openai#2…