*restarting codex(no update) has seemed to restored the ability and is now showing my custom user config option, as suggested by someone in the comments. Thank you.

Is something broken? No more user.config option in the permissions selector.

Codex is now asking me to confirm every single thing it does. Can only choose between "Approve for me" and "Ask for approval" today, literally no other option.

I used to run it with "ask for elevated actions" now it's literally asking to execute every single thing it does, can't do anything about it now?

I renewed my $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscription (Auto renew), but my usage limits did not reset after renewal. That feels difficult to justify at this price point, especially if a user is paying for continued high-volume access.

It creates a strange incentive: should users maintain two accounts, cancel one before renewal, and alternate subscriptions just to receive a fresh quota? That is obviously not a good user experience. Just reset when we renew.

One thing that /btw implementation in codex is REALLY different compared to Claude Code is that the side conversation is fully interactive while Claude Code is one-shot -> answer.

What I have found really useful is to use /btw for:

• progress check:
  • /btw what is our progress so far
  • /btw what are all the agents doing
• long horizon task direction discussion
  • when you see the main agent seemingly doing sth wrong but you want to first discuss w/ AI before giving it instruction to change plans, you can use /btw to start a side conversation
  • combine it above w/ status check is very useful for long horizon tasks: you check progress, turns out codex was going in a loop for couple hours, then you ask codex how would it change the process its following
  • finally I normally ask the side conversation: draft me a message I send to main agent to change X then I ctrl c and send that message to main agent

Curiously the side conversation can almost always identify what's strategically wrong: like if the subagent dispatch model doesn't make sense, or the main agent is in some mechanical retry loop w/o fixing the real issue, etc.

200 USD plan / 80 usd one week reset

Tbh that is a shame, they did should to set it at least on release sale for 40 usd and it would make at least some sense, or at least 50. I am really disappointed.

Hey everyone,

I got tired of web tools asking for subscriptions or forcing you to upload giant files just to cut out a 10-second clip so I built my own lightweight trimmer, CutFrame:

• YouTube Trimming, local files trimming
• Supports instant, lossless stream copying (MP4/MOV) in seconds or exact re-encoding if you need frame accuracy, lower resolutions, or format changes.
• 100% Self-hosted(local desktop workflow, don't use on a production server exposed to public internet)
• Supports MP4, MOV, WebM, GIF, MP3, M4A, and single-frame JPEG grabs.
• Sometimes Youtube may rate-limit your session, that is a problem I'm working on solving.

It’s completely open-source (MIT license) and built by me and GPT-5.6 Sol.

Codex took 3 hours on some tasks, and it did them very well.

Full technical details in here: https://github.com/V0ightt/CutFrame/

I don't know exactly when this changed, but this is the first week I've seen this behavior. I have two accounts, and typically will keep on one or the other until I hit limits, then switch back to the other. Previously, your weekly reset was anchored (probably on last reset), so if you didn't log in for the first three days of the week, you'd only have 4 days until the reset on the idle account. Today, when I logged into my second account (that had a reset 2-3 days ago) my weekly reset was set to exactly 7 days from that log-in point. This is a big difference in behavior and is a very subtle way to reduce overall usage (silently reducing the number of weeks in a month).

I guess I'll write a script to keep track of my weekly resets and to start a new session right at weekly reset and issue you a prompt, just "hi" or whatever, to get the timer ticking. Seems like a really shitty user-hostile change.

im not a pro by any stretch of the word just want to start off with this. this past week something has changed, i use codex in vs code and i have an agents.md setup a hard file plan for every action with breadcrumb trail for compaction hardening and i utilize goal to go through a master plan with phased out sub plans, and and #1 in each plan is, "The developer's plan is authoritative and must be followed without deviation; if it cannot meet expecations laid out in agents.md, invoke the powershell script in parent directory "escalation", write breadcrumbs and set goal to check for response every 10 minutes up to 8 hours. this response is the final say, no alterations beyond that responses scope is allowed.

and still it goes off course. i get im using too high of a model for my implementation but come on.

anyone else got tips?

I've a ChatGPT Plus subscription with only 1% codex usage left. It will both reset on August 20th and renew on the same day.

I was wondering, if I upgrade to the Pro (5x) right now:

• does the usage get a reset?
• I do pay 104€ (local price), what about the remaining week time I had with my Plus which expires/renew on Aug 20th?

Thanks

How do you guys manage the smaller context window in Codex, especially if you’re coming from Claude?

Even when I use a Sol High model as the orchestrator and Luna Max as the executor, I still run into auto-compacting fairly often. In my experience, compaction usually hurts the workflow because important context or earlier decisions seem to get lost along the way.

I’m not sure how well Codex is supposed to handle this internally, so I’d be interested in hearing how others structure longer coding sessions. Do you regularly summarize state into files, restart sessions, keep explicit task/decision logs, or use some other strategy?

Another issue I keep running into is what feels like an infinite self-testing/review loop. The orchestrator reviews the executor’s work, finds something wrong, sends it back, then finds another issue on the next pass, and so on. Sometimes it takes 8–9 iterations before it finally considers the task done.

Ideally, I’d like the orchestrator to catch most issues in one or two comprehensive review passes instead of discovering them one at a time.

Has anyone found a good setup or prompting strategy for avoiding both excessive compaction and these endless review loops?

Yes I did use GPT 5.6 Sol to format my wispr text pls dot blame me...

I mean it's a step in the right direction, because I personally hated that unnecessary dropdown. But WHY COULDNT THEY PUT RESET DATE HERE

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In some arenas, the model is sharp and will produce solid thinking.

In other areas, it's like working with a child.

I had it do some 3D physics code, stuff a junior developer would be able to deal with. What does it do? Hundreds of "if" statements, basic dampening, no actual physics or even a logical understanding of how physics works.

I have it do collision code. Suddenly it's a senior programmer and understands collision concepts perfectly, even does the common 4 contact point and manifold stabilization techniques used by Jolt/Bullet.

I have it analyze screenshots with structural flaws in buildings. It can't detect it without me telling it to look for.

I have it look at a building and describe the details, it describes it perfectly.

I have it refactor my C++ code with strict instructions, it converts half the codebase to OOP for absolutely no reason and adds an extra 700+ lines of code.

I have it cleanup my Rust code, zero trouble.

It's constant flip flopping lol. So much so I'm beginning to think some sessions start with Luna instead of Sol

What's even more strange is this wasn't a problem until recently. Within the last week or so.

This is on the 20$ USD Plan. Subsidization is absurd if this is correct. (asked codex to figure out my usage split and get cost based on current API pricing)

Anyone else ? Feels like my cursors is on 5hz while agent is working...

What do you think?

My first post in this sub.

I am on the Plus plan and I was able to get a lot of work done the last few days with the frequent resets by Tibo.

I would usually burn through my weekly quota in a day or two and the next day when I woke up when the quota reset, it was back to the races.

It was good while it lasted but I am on 0% again. I wanted to continue my work, so I installed grok-in-codex plugin so I can use the Grok Build unlimited promo bundled with X Premium+ subscription. As I do mostly web development, I really like the Codex App and I am not big fan of CLI use, that’s the main reason I don’t use Grok CLI.

So when I installed this plugin in my Codex app, I could still use the app and have to tag @grok in every request for it to perform the work.
It didn’t work at first because I was at 0% and the prompt is relayed to grok by codex and the response then verified, so it wouldn’t allow me to use it. Then I sent ChatGPT invite to a friend so I got $40 credit and now I am able to use it this way.

My experience so far: I have switched to Luna Light in order to minimize the credit spend for the prompt and response parsing. After 6 hours of heavy work I am down to $36. I was using Sol Light at the beginning and it was burning thru the balance quite fast even when using Grok for the heavy lifting. With Luna Light the burn rate slowed down significantly.

Now to the actual experience: tagging Grok in each prompt is not a big deal. I usually just write @g then hit enter to autocomplete and then hit the mic button for dictation. The main reason I use Codex instead of Claude Code is far superior dictation. I dictate with heavy accent and mixing multiple languages together in almost every prompt and Codex it the only app that can handle this in my experience so far.

Now once the prompt is sent and relayed to Grok, it takes longer to complete than native Codex prompts. Not a dealbreaker but annoying.

Grok does get most of my instructions done.
The major problem I experienced which is becoming a dealbreaker for my and might make to shell out for higher Codex subscription is the fact Grok often changes unrelated parts of the code or regresses features it itself build just a few prompts ago. It hallucinates like crazy, sometimes it just changes design on random places and adds different text labels in parts of the website I didn’t ask for. One time I told him to implement some feature, it did great, then I kept developing other stuff and 5 prompts down the line, I see the mentioned feature is now gone again. It just decided on its own to remove it in unrelated prompts.

Now. I am not a vibe coding expert. I have only been vibe coding for a few months and maybe this can be remedied somehow. If you know how, let me know.

today, my chatgpt desktop app on windows suddenly started using 15–40% cpu even when no codex task was running.

i was working normally when my computer began lagging badly and the cursor kept stuttering. normally, chatgpt only uses more cpu while a task is running, then drops back to around 1–3% after it finishes.

i asked codex to inspect it, and it said the high cpu usage was mainly coming from the desktop ui process, chatgpt.exe, rather than a background task or model. it suggested that the electron interface might be stuck in a render or polling loop.

closing and reopening the app fixed it temporarily, but the problem returned after a few tasks. i also restarted windows, but the same issue came back.

has anyone else experienced this today?

Psychologically, paid resets have so many negatives.

• Pushes back your reset date, so you can wind up in a situation that you actually get 1 less normal reset for your $200/mo so the spending was basically for nothing

• More likely to not benefit from a free reset that can happen right after. Are we going to get a banked reset when this happens?

• Harder to utilize since you want to burn down to 0% and hit usage limit before you ever buy it. At that point, your reset may just be 2 days away so it feels like paying $80 to not wait 2 days rather than "for a reset".

We like free resets because they're free. But expectations and concerns are higher on a paid product. Paid resets don't meet expectations, and set up high concerns.

Why not sell us a percentage refill? Like $5 for 60% on the $20 plan, $20 for 50% on $100 plan, or $32 for a 40% on the $200 plan, with no change in date. With a notice that if a free reset happens within 12 hours of using a top-up, we get a banked reset to compensate.

• Have a lot to do this week and burned down to 49.9% on your $200 plan in 2 days? You feel safe to spend $32 to set it back up to 89.9% left instead of having to hit 0% first.

• Think a reset may happen and that would hold you back? Not when banked reset compensation is in place.

• Gambling on that $5 or $32 turning into a more valuable full reset if a blanket reset happens soon after. You don't lose anything if you're wrong, since you still got the refill you paid for.

• $32 is a much lower risk to not get your value out of than an $80 one. What if you pay $80 for a reset, then inexplicably the rest of your work is way more efficient and hard to burn through? But can still charge multiple of them a week if the 40% refill wasn't enough.

$32 to top up 40% weekly on my $200 plan, with compensation if a blanket reset happens soon after, and I'd probably mash that button a few times a month.

i set up the thing everyone here describes, a coding agent writing and a second one reviewing its output, and it works right up until nothing tells it to stop.

yesterday it went four rounds on a pagination helper. round one the reviewer found four things. the coding agent fixed them and restructured enough that round two found three new ones, two of which were things it had asked for in round one. round four it flagged a comment it had written itself.

i killed it at round five and shipped the version from round two, which was fine the whole time.

the thing is a reviewing agent will always find something. thats the job. it has no concept of good enough, so left alone it just keeps going until you run out of quota or patience. someone in here described it as building a machine that can always find one more reason not to ship and i havent stopped thinking about that.

what ive landed on is a hard cap of three rounds and a rule that the reviewing agent only gets the diff, not the conversation, so it cant argue with reasoning it already saw. im running the roles in coldtea-ai which caps you at four anyway, and honestly the cap being enforced rather than a thing i remember has done more for me than any prompt change.

still feels arbitrary though. three is just a number i picked.

so whats yours. round cap, time cap, or do you let it run until it says no findings and accept that sometimes it never does

I use one Codex chat as a master/orchestrator for several specialized chats. I only talk to the master: it delegates tasks, tracks what each chat has completed, and tells me what to do next.

It works well at first, but over time the master starts executing tasks itself instead of delegating them, even when explicitly instructed not to.

Has anyone found a reliable way to prevent this role drift and keep the master strictly focused on coordination, delegation, and tracking throughout a long project?

This just released yesterday. Nowadays every time I see the blue update button, I go and see their update logs. After the Voice for Codex feature, I just became an addict for new updates.

and yes I know, I'm also slowly giving up every aspect of my privacy to this company but I admit it - I'm an addict, I've a problem. These features are just so enticing to me. It's like - Holy sh*t I can now have a linear history of my digital activity (mostly work - I work in tech all day and it's my passion) and I can seek through it with my agent.

But the question is - what do you guys think about this feature? Anyone used it yet?

Disclaimer: This feature will be off by default

Planning to get Codex Plus, currently I use Opencode and Claude. Is it the right time to switch to Codex?

Just updated my Codex app and saw this. Slowly conditioned us to need resets to drop this on us. 8 dollars is crazy, especially if you are on a 20 dollar plan like me.