Rank, 14 days: 233 on the Codex sheet
3 people reported

All time, since Oct 15, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Excessive token usage

“The Codex VS Code extension consumed a large fraction of the user's plan allowance after only two user turns.”

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I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/13663/file
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Excessive token usage from repeated full-context tool calls. Short sessions expand into many internal tool calls or wait/write_stdin polls, each resending a context of about 185k input tokens.

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Where
VS Code extension
Versions
26.1007.21434
Platforms
Windows
How bad
Breaks a normal workflow.

Not quite your bug?

  1. Weekly usage drains fast4 people
  2. Premature auto-compaction26 people
  3. Usage limit drains fast5 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Codex VS Code: excessive token/usage consumption during long-running local process wait (polling causes full-context model rounds) + misleading de_DE Fast Mode copyOn GitHub#58066
  2. VS Code: two user turns triggered 112 tool calls and ~13.9M input tokensOn GitHub#54370

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