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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