Limits display on /status is confusing
Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Nov 13, 2025 by kvcop Closed Dec 3, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.58.0
What subscription do you have?
Pro
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.1-codex high
What platform is your computer?
Linux 6.6.87.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64 x86_64
What issue are you seeing?
The bars for the limits seems to be inverted, it may mislead users thingking its 94% full, instead of 94% empty.
<img width="715" height="80" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/40bd21e4-d42e-4b3d-afe4-e765dc353bbe" />
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Write some prompt, then /status
What is the expected behavior?
There should be less "█" symbols pasted, because "93% left" is meaning bar should be 7% full
Additional information
_No response_
7 Comments
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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I've gone through https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/6276 and it's in fact NOT a duplicate
I've investigated the issue a bit more, found https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6482 it says that it's to match the codex/settings/usage.
The confusion comes from mixing up gauge bars in UI with progress bars in TUI.
<img width="1218" height="168" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/83c3c887-6469-4ae9-a2d5-cf562efe3f03" />
But the thing is in the web UI there's a green line, which tries to signal the "still plenty left". And in the TUI we don't have the green color in the terminal and white box symbol usually means that something is used up or is making progress towards the end. For example in progress bar we measure with white bars how much is _used_, not how much is left.
If we want an inverted bar, maybe we should consider putting the white bars on the right like so?
[░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░██]
Or maybe even making it actually green color.
Variants i've tested:
1.
<img width="461" height="68" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a334f102-6866-4967-9ebd-52879ba294a3" />
2.
<img width="453" height="66" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b93fcf53-1c1a-403b-8a36-326b16e9f925" />
In the first one abundance of white color blends with the green for the eye. Second one looks way better in my opinion.
3.
<img width="370" height="46" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2a59b294-98a9-49cd-979e-82adad4120e6" />
Cause Color::Rgb is disallowed. Will make PR with this one
For anyone wondering, here's official comment https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6625#issuecomment-3530737253
Thanks for all the feedback. We've updated the limits displays and normalized them across the CLI and IDE extension so they are consistent.