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All time, since Oct 17.

Agent over-engineers and ignores corrections on long migration tasks

“Instead, I observed repeated checks, additional tooling and procedures, and stops after status explanations that required further reminders.”

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Codex acknowledges instructions but adds extra tooling, process and documentation, and stops after status explanations instead of continuing.

Is this your bug?

Where: agent behavior
Versions: 0.162.1 to 0.163.0
Platforms: macOS
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow.

Related: Agent loses goal on long tasks

Not quite your bug?

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Original reports2, newest first

Oct 19, 2026Agent repeatedly over-engineers and fails to converge: roughly 24 hours on an API URL migrationOn GitHub#55414
Oct 17, 2026Repeated instruction-following failures and excessive redundant work in a long-running migration taskOn GitHub#54819

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