please replace "⚠ Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model." with a backoff algorithm
Open 💬 3 comments Opened Jul 16, 2026 by RohanAdwankar
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What variant of Codex are you using?
CLI
What feature would you like to see?
Currently the behavior is when "⚠ Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model." is sent it just stops. However it would be nice to have a backoff approach where after it gets that alert it retries in 2 minutes then 4 minutes, then 8 minutes etc. The reason being that most of these are very transient capacity issue not worth stopping the flow outright.
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This queue issue a big one because often it will break the prompt with this capacity issue presumably from a load balancer but then it will cascade right into the follow up tab queued prompt even though that prompt is/can be dependent on the previous prompt having finished correctly
for example, if ive prompted implement and merge A which fixes B and then tab queued up "now that B is fixed we can implement C" then "selected model is at capacity" hits, it can immediately halt our finishing of A but then because a load balancer switches us to somewhere where the model is not at capacity, it can from a dirty halfdone feature A begin the confused implementation of C from a partially done conversation.