OpenAI Codex Kept Running 17 Hours After Hitting Usage Limit
Present-Quantity-813 · reddit · 2026-07-30
A developer discovered that OpenAI's Codex Desktop continued executing an in-flight task for about 17 hours even after the account's usage hit zero. While new tasks were blocked, the existing goal-driven session kept progressing.
The user is building Aming Claw, an agent-governance system using a push architecture where an external layer determines the agent's position and supplies actions. This raises a key infrastructure question: for long-running agents driven by external goals, should the task's endpoint be defined by a model turn, a workflow step, or the semantic return of the external goal?
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