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Goal resume enters endless loop #37304
Description
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.146.0
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.6
What platform is your computer?
linux x64
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
cursor terminal
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
• Still paused as requested, awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Work remains paused as requested. Awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Still paused as requested, awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Work remains paused as requested. Awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Still paused as requested, awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Work remains paused as requested. Awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Still paused as requested, awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Work remains paused as requested. Awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Still paused as requested, awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Work remains paused as requested. Awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
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• Still paused as requested, awaiting your explicit instruction to resume.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019fd18b-2300-7e32-ad48-aae801d53a59
What is the expected behavior?
I ran /goal resume then left for ~1 hour.
When I returned the model had entered this loop. No actual work was done.
Additional information
No response
Activity
nikolageorgiev2000 commentedon Aug 6, 2026
I think what happened is that I had previously mentioned to summarize work because we were running out of credits. When I resume the goal the model entered this loop. Ideally Codex should detect loops like this to prevent wasting tokens!
nikolageorgiev2000 commentedon Aug 6, 2026
closed by mistake
kimjansheden commentedon Sep 5, 2026
Reproduced this today (2026-09-05, Europe/Stockholm) with Goal mode on GPT-6 Astra, with severe quota impact.
What happened
I had a Goal-mode thread that had previously been paused. At about 01:25 local time I resumed the thread. Instead of resuming work, it repeatedly emitted the same no-progress message:
The message was repeated over and over without useful work or tool progress. I did not notice until about 02:10, so the loop ran for roughly 45 minutes before I stopped it.
Impact
During this no-op loop, roughly 30% of my weekly usage quota was consumed.
This is much worse than the behavior I had observed previously, where Goal mode would stop after only a few unsuccessful/no-progress continuation attempts. In this run there was effectively no circuit breaker: the same paused state + same response + zero progress continued indefinitely while consuming quota.
Expected behavior
After resume, either:
It should never keep generating identical no-op continuations indefinitely.
This looks related to the broader unbounded Goal auto-continuation / quota-consumption failure mode reported in #34248. Please also consider quota protection for this failure mode, e.g. detect repeated identical state/response with zero tool progress and terminate the Goal automatically.
Given that about 30% of a weekly quota was consumed while no work was being performed, I would also appreciate guidance on having the affected quota reviewed/restored.
zack-avino-cld commentedon Sep 7, 2026
Same failure on a newer build, with the cost quantified. Codex CLI 0.153.4, model gpt-6-astra, Linux x64 (Arch, kernel 7.0.10), Pro plan. Thread
01a07671-502f-7a80-ab67-f30b68a04a6d.Worth noting that this is a different model generation from the original report (gpt-5.6 there, gpt-6-astra here) and seven releases later, so the bug is neither model-specific nor fixed.
Same shape as the original report: a persistent goal was active, I told the agent to stop, it acknowledged the stop, and then it kept re-invoking itself with the same "Paused." / "Work remains paused as requested." strings. The difference is that I did not come back after an hour. It ran for 13.5 hours and consumed my entire weekly quota.
Timeline (UTC)
<codex_internal_context source="goal">injectedThat is one turn every 6.3 seconds for 13.5 hours.
What it emitted after the stop instruction
From the session rollout, assistant messages in the loop window:
task_startedeventsCost
From
token_usage_record.thread_token_usagein the rollout file:92.2 percent of the thread's lifetime token consumption happened after I asked the agent to stop. The requested work was finished, validated and documented before the loop began.
Two things that make this expensive rather than just annoying
Suggested termination conditions
Any one of these would have caught it:
The last one seems worth having regardless, since the current behavior has no ceiling short of the account's quota.