GPT 5.6 Terra => Consumed 80% context for really simple bugs, tried to load secrets/keychain to expose them to third party web site (because it could not download the images from atlassian)
Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jul 15, 2026 by isolomatov-gd
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.144.4
What subscription do you have?
Enterprise
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.6-terra high
What platform is your computer?
MacOS X 26.5.2, Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Ghostty, tmux
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
In planning mode ask to investigate 7 issues (it for some reason found 8!), with images, etc. In the end it started reading everything and trying to get keychain/etc. It was allowed to not use sandbox, so it tried all the way. Burned 80% context and returned very bad non-coherent plan. Which sounds plausible, but in reality total mess for person who built a product. It never stated true cause or problem. It was going in circles AROUND the problem. Instead of reading right files, it started listing/searching even though workspace relative path was provided directly.
Restarting it and requesting it TO first think then do, resulted in proper analysis. Tracks, etc. And again, it started reading unrelated PRs, checking other things and going completely wrong direction. In the end consuming AGAIN 50% of context. With just A BASIC request. Those 7 issues are all about the same workflow and stage. And one is about hooks. Total context required was 2%. Literally read 3-5 files. Unfortunately even after that it presented "findings" which are basically files it read, not WHY this happened. Represented intermediate results as ROOT cause. Which is epic failure.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019f626a-6aae-7683-aa5a-37cdf192b5b9
What is the expected behavior?
Spend 10% context and figure out the root cause.
Additional information
_No response_
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