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Codex autonomously multiplied work across worktrees/subagents, exhausted weekly quota, then aborted the active turn #33701

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Codex exhausted almost an entire freshly reset weekly usage allowance in roughly two hours while executing a development workflow across three parallel worktrees. Post-incident analysis showed that each worktree also used its own subagents.

I requested that the implementation be performed in small, controlled pieces. I did not request an especially expensive multi-agent strategy, nor did I explicitly ask Codex to multiply each worktree into

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    bugSomething isn't working
    appIssues related to the Codex desktop app
    subagentIssues involving subagents or multi-agent features
    rate-limitsIssues related to rate limits, quotas, and token usage reporting
    on Jul 16, 2026
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