GPT 5.6 kept looping web agent non-stop

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 14, 2026 by christopheragnus

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

26.707.72221

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro 5x

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

GPT 5.6 kept looping again and again without being able to use Chrome web agent properly. It constantly showed "Create disposable web agent", "Verify disposable web agent", etc for 30 mins or more - resulting in a token burn. This was on medium thinking.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 019f5e37-b40f-7a50-a5d1-2383bd50d7cc

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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