It repeatedly stated that it would start the new work based on the WIP branch, confirmed this several times, and I also confirmed it back. However, it ended up working overnight based on the master branch from a week ago, wasting a huge amount of tokens and 24 hours of work.

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 3, 2026 by cocomoar Closed Jun 3, 2026

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.136.0

What subscription do you have?

pro 200$

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.5 xhigh

What platform is your computer?

mac stduio

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

iterm2

Codex doctor report

What issue are you seeing?

It repeatedly stated that it would start the new work based on the WIP branch, confirmed this several times, and I also confirmed it back. However, it ended up working overnight based on the master branch from a week ago, wasting a huge amount of tokens and 24 hours of work.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019e87a1-b153-7bf2-89ad-aa414cc3c6fe

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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