Bring back 5-hr limit or allow Ultra budgets
Open 💬 3 comments Opened Jul 22, 2026 by kendonB
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What variant of Codex are you using?
Codex CLI
What feature would you like to see?
I blew through 50-60 percentage points of a Pro 20x plan overnight on a single Ultra run. I'm having xhigh analyse the usage to see if it can figure out why, but I've happily been using Ultra for several tasks of what I thought was similar complexity where it would use around 1 percentage point of usage.
The 5-hour limit served as a useful defense against this sort of thing with 5.5 /goals.
So please give us some way to cap unattended Ultra usage over the 5-hour time scale again.
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Actually this may be a usage bug.
The messages rate was normal yesterday:
<img width="400" height="66" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dd871331-5701-4f2c-a4d9-307ba3cafc65" />
But detected usage was hugely elevated:
<img width="402" height="172" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9aee8cf6-7a88-4040-b1e2-3f7026af3102" />
mm 5.6-sol apportions some of the blame to me
<img width="984" height="49" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fe2135d8-176f-424b-ac94-f8ae7ef6dca6" />