Codex Chronicle silently drains subscription quota 24/7 and triggers auth token invalidation

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.519.81530 (3178)

What subscription do you have?

pro

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Codex Chronicle (codex_chronicle process) starts automatically when Codex.app launches and continuously spawns codex
▎ exec --model gpt-5.5 jobs to summarize screen recordings. These run 24/7 with no usage warnings and no obvious way
▎ to disable the feature.
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▎ This has drained my Codex subscription 3 times in one week. Worse, the volume of API calls Chronicle generates is
▎ high enough that OpenAI's auth system invalidated my session token (HTTP 401: token_invalidated), locking me out on
▎ top of draining my credits. I had to purchase additional credits and re-authenticate to restore access.
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▎ Processes confirmed running:
▎ - /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/codex_chronicle
▎ - codex exec --json --skip-git-repo-check --ephemeral --model gpt-5.5 --config model_provider="openai-memgen"
▎
▎ Error received after drain:
▎ HTTP 401: Your authentication token has been invalidated. Please try signing in again.
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▎ Chronicle should not silently consume paid quota without explicit opt-in and usage visibility. There is no dashboard
▎ showing Chronicle-specific consumption, no alerts before exhaustion, and no easy toggle to disable it.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: no-active-thread-019eba48-a325-77e3-a3cb-f57d97fe2358

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

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