High credit usage

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.98.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.3-codex

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

WSL

What issue are you seeing?

I've been working on a refactoring plan and started using Codex 5.3 yesterday. Most of the work is iterating over the same requests, where I ask Codex for architectural improvements, performance improvements, simplifying things and so on.

With regular limits it cost maybe 1-2% of my weekly limit (on Plus).

Now that my weekly limit is reached, Codex is gobbling credits like crazy. I have maybe 4 of those same requests eating more than 100 credits. To put this in perspective, working on the same codebase I'm used to 100 credits being roughly one day's work. At this rate, I'm not even sure 1000 credits would take me through the day.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Using credits instead of weekly limits.

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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