Usage draining on idle app #31165

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3. github-actions commented on Jul 5, 2026

   

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   Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

   • Codex Desktop appears to consume Exec quota while idle with no visible background activity #31054
   • Bug: Unexpected high quota consumption by Desktop App while idle #30525
   • Usage hit 0% with zero messages sent, quota draining with no activity at all #30943
   • Usage limits draining 5-10x too fast for 2 weeks, one message eats 46% of the 5h window #30939
   • Usage limits draining abnormally fast on Plus: 70% to 100% in about 6 minutes on July 2, 2026 #30918

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4. hankwangtw commented on Sep 2, 2026

   

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   In case it is the same cause as mine — two read-only checks that take a few seconds:

   grep -n chronicle ~/.codex/config.toml
   grep -c 'starting codex exec summary session' ~/Library/Logs/com.openai.codex/2026/*/*/*.log
   

   If the second one returns non-zero counts, the Chronicle research preview (screen capture → local OCR → periodic model summaries) has been running. On my Mac that path produced 6,002 background model calls in 8 days while Settings → Usage showed nothing, and asking Codex itself to investigate consumed more quota without finding it. Details and a script are in #42282.

   If both come back empty, it is something else — ambient/home suggestions are another documented background caller (#29380), and delayed accounting is a third possibility.