Review loops without delivery

“After roughly 15 hours of work, it spent about seven hours building and repeatedly reviewing a special recovery procedure instead of completing the release.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/11497/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Growing. 2 reports in the last 7 days and none the week before.

Agent loops in repair and review instead of delivering, burning usage. Sessions spend hours in recovery and review loops without an integrated result, with delegated workers also in use.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: Codex agent
Versions: 0.159.3 to 0.167.0. Still reported on the newest version, 0.167.0.
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
How bad: Stops work: a core feature can't be used.

Part of: Agent loses goal on long tasks5 bugs

False completion reports6 people
Goal drift in long tasks6 people
Compaction and re-inspection loop3 people
Agent replaces reported problem with narrower unsupported diagnosis3 people

Not quite your bug?

Turns end before work finishes19 people

Original reports5, newest first

Nov 7, 2026Agent spends hours in recovery/review loops instead of shipping an authorized release, consuming most weekly usageOn GitHub#60128
Nov 6, 2026Codex burns paid tokens in review loops without deliveringOn GitHub#59911
Oct 15, 2026Windows app: excessive unattended usage during repeated subagent/review loops despite bounded-delivery instructionsOn GitHub#54178
Oct 11, 2026Incident: focused repair spiraled into hours of uncontrolled work and millions of tokens, leaving application offlineOn GitHub#53214
Oct 2, 2026[gpt-6.1-sol, high] Loss of focus on the goal: over 12 hours of repair loops without an integrated resultOn GitHub#50267