Medium Usage Ran Out it Less than an HR of usage of normal tasks.
Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jun 25, 2026 by nrichards-cpp
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.142.2
What subscription do you have?
GPT Edu
Which model were you using?
gpt 5.5 medium
What platform is your computer?
Windows
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Powersherll
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
I was having my agent write update xUnit tests while logging chat history. Typically it would take me 2-3 hrs to use up or close to my entire 5 hr limit. For a cumulative time of I'd say around 30min-1hr I already used up 90% of that usage, In that time I
- I updated the project agent using another agent in my Projects/ root directory.
- I resumed a session in my tests project.
- Planned and made 1 test regarding querying oracle to print rows.
- Updated test to put rows optionally into a csv.
I was also working on other tasks so the time log might show something different. My estimated time was based on actually working with the agent.
I've done a lot more on the medium and it's used a lot less.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019efa9a-89c3-72b1-87c4-ae42004910ed
What is the expected behavior?
I feel like it used twice as much usage as normal for simple prompts i've been doing for the past month at least.
Additional information
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