Codex constantly getting stuck while writing text files

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Nov 17, 2025 by CharaCat Closed Jan 17, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

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-mini / gpt-5.1-codex (both on high)

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19045.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

I asked codex to create a writeup to give to another AI to analyze the current structure with this prompt:
"give me an entire writedown how our current project works. horus in general our pyd file just everything we access
and create a "writedown.txt" for it. it should be able to explain all important details to a outstander ai to
understand what we are doin.
you have full read and write access"
It then proceeded to run correctly reading all files, and then got stuck on it for the first time, approximately 1 hour, retried, and got stuck again.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019a8f7f-c487-7d02-a61b-c1f6469ad7e7

What is the expected behavior?

To write a writeup.txt

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 9 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #6411
  • #6623
  • #6560
  • #6715
  • #6740

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etraut-openai contributor · 7 months ago

Closing out old bugs.