429 Too Many Requests

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#34,484 opened on Jul 21, 2026 2 comments 2 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 38/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Quiet
Tech stack: rust
Domain: api, cli

Research direction

Start by reviewing the uploaded thread 019f83ba-2381-7163-9d68-546a9a93705a and the Codex CLI handling around the retry-limit message. Reproduce the 429 response with codex-cli 0.144.6 on macOS using the API subscription and gpt-5.5. Done means the cause is identified and the issue has a clear, verifiable behavior or error report.

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Description

bug CLI rate-limits

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.144.6

What subscription do you have?

API

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.5

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

macOS terminal

Codex doctor report

What issue are you seeing?

just showing ■ exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Request, nothing more, idk why

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019f83ba-2381-7163-9d68-546a9a93705a

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information