"I wasn’t able to finish within the time budget" on gpt-5.1-codex-max (reasoning xhigh, summaries auto)
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Nov 20, 2025 by PrzemyslawKlys Closed Nov 20, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.60.1
What subscription do you have?
pro
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.1-codex-max (reasoning xhigh, summaries auto)
What platform is your computer?
WIndows 11 x64 (WSL)
What issue are you seeing?
So i asked codex to work on a problem and it gave up after 15 minutes
<img width="1257" height="202" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/76ed85bc-3a45-4cc4-888b-e9ed6ee1afcc" />
It prompted to continue, and it continues but I thought the idea of new model was that it's able to continue without timing out ?
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Hard to say, I just asked it to do analysis of a webpage vs what my code does and it was testing and it gave up.
What is the expected behavior?
Continue until resolving? I have time - 15 minutes seems like an online thing.
Additional information
_No response_
2 Comments
Thanks for the bug report. We'll share the feedback with the team responsible for training our codex models. If you see other model behavior that you'd like to report, please use the
/feedbackcommand in the CLI. That will provide us with additional details including logs and conversation text.Same issue here... it happens randomly, but already seen it a few times today. Here's one that happened after just <2 minutes:
<img width="966" height="278" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/42a7c116-d062-4447-af80-efdd15786ab8" />