Rank, 14 days: 12 on the Codex sheet
36 people reported
All time, since Sep 15, including 20 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Agent stops turn before finishing
“Codex keeps telling me it will continue, then ends the turn without doing the work.”
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3 bugs in this theme
- Turns end before work finishesNo workaround yet19 people
- Agent stops before work is doneNo workaround yet15 people
- Turn ends after commentaryNo workaround yet2 people
What's included
- Turn ends right after a progress/commentary message, before the announced tool calls run
- Agent stops after one intermediate step, passing test or partial edit despite explicit continue-until-done instructions
- Agent acknowledges unfinished work and no blocker, then stops again after each nudge
- Reproduced across new sessions, models, app updates, macOS and Windows desktop and the CLI
Not included
- Agent drifting from the requested goal or declaring incomplete work done
- Output aborted by a "regurg plugin blocked the output stream" error
- General complaints of lower reasoning quality
Original reports17, newest first
- "Lazy" Sol 6.1On GitHub#59269
- Codex Windows Desktop prematurely terminates long autonomous runs despite remaining actionable workOn GitHub#59094
- Codex automation incident reportOn GitHub#58605
- Work/Codex (desktop): GPT‑6.1 Terra (Medium) interrompe execução contínua e exige prompts de “pode continuar” repetidamente (mesmo com “Approve for me”).On GitHub#58114
- Codex Desktop repeatedly ends multi-step implementation tasks prematurelyOn GitHub#58041
- Codex Desktop repeatedly ends turn after partial progress despite actionable work remaining (macOS, fresh session reproduced)On GitHub#57843
- Codex ends turns after review/checkpoint milestones while explicitly acknowledging unfinished work (Windows, 0.164.0)On GitHub#56951
- Codex 0.159.1 ends an unfinished task immediately after promising to finish, with zero tool callsOn GitHub#55503
- [Harness / GPT-6 Astra] Explicit criteria fail to govern scope and continuation after a GPT-5.6-era harness migrationOn GitHub#52345
- Codex Desktop ends correction turns with unexecuted final promises; next-day admission confirms omissionOn GitHub#51988
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- Codex keeps stopping or losing the task before the work is doneOn GitHub#50771
- Codex Desktop repeatedly terminates multi-step implementation turns after one intermediate subtask despite explicit continuation/acceptance criteriaOn GitHub#49390
- Codex Desktop ends unfinished long-running work after a small partial checkpointOn GitHub#48677
- Repeated scope failures in real Codex projectsOn the forum#1399757
- Codex Desktop on macOS ends implementation turns after commentary despite incomplete approved workOn GitHub#46359
- Codex app intermittently ends a turn after commentary before executing planned tool callsOn GitHub#46153
- All talk, no action, in several gpt5.5 sessions todayOn GitHub#45814