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A current Codex usage limit stays visible when the terminal redraws. Inventory keeps the typed unknown/usage_limit reading, compact rig ps text and JSON retain the reason, and the existing web activity labels show “usage limit”. Ordinary sends remain allowed. Stale or generation-mismatched limits still yield to current activity, and newer permission prompts, blocked visuals and startup errors retain priority.

Refs #763 and #824. This follows #973 and addresses current-limit display masking; the broader provider-signal and idle-redraw issues remain open.

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Base: 3bc921233e88a417c788a0ff9ab022630ebbb96d
Head: 9b990c51e2cba49707a03376c6d12abc8e495cc0
Two commits: 198 and 71 changed lines respectively, including tests (each below 200).

  • Reproduced the failure through the real SQLite AgentActivityStore, SeatActivityService and attachAgentActivity, with a cached idle pane and a motion reading one second old. The new base's original inventory code reports running/window_activity_motion; the fix preserves the typed limit and its evidence.
  • Added fail-first compact CLI and real React component tests with fixture data. Also reproduced and guarded the newer permission/blocked and startup-error priority cases.
  • Reproduced the inventory priority finding through the real SQLite store and structural/motion services: the two newer-permission cases failed before the correction. Fourteen chronology cases now cover newer, equal, older and expired cached prompts, expired/generation-mismatched limits, and newer idle, with and without live motion. Only a fresh, strictly newer attention observation overrides a current limit; inventory reads perform no capture.
  • npm run build and npm run lint passed on this head's exact source tree.
  • 503 tests passed across 15 focused daemon, transport, CLI and UI suites, using one worker. Both OPENRIG_OUTPUT_COMPACT=1 and RIGGED_OUTPUT_COMPACT=1 were set to exercise the new base's hermetic environment scrubbing.
  • The ordinary-send test verifies text plus Enter without a prompt override. Existing motion precedence and stale-generation tests pass.

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This is deterministic store/component reproduction with simulated terminal observations, not a native Codex quota or tmux end-to-end test. Before/after browser screenshots could not be captured: cloud Chromium failed before page creation with socket EPERM. No screenshot claim is made.

The earlier full UI run before the corrective commit on 4e14d01b had 1,738 passed, 1 failed and 1 skipped; the failure was a markdown-viewer child process unable to create a tsx Unix socket. That is not a full current-base pass. Full npm test was previously canceled during repository packaging, so no complete local aggregate result is claimed. The earlier head a0cbf56 passed the hosted daemon suite; that result is not attributed to this corrective head. Hosted checks on the new head are tracked separately.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Current Codex usage limits are identified and shown in node, seat, and compact CLI views, while stale or unconfirmed signals are not presented as current.
    • Newer “needs input” or “blocked” activity takes precedence over a usage-limit indicator.
    • Usage-limit banners are recognized in more composer layouts and clear only after a valid later check confirms the limit is gone; failed, blank, or unrecognized checks no longer clear them.
    • Sending a message while a current usage limit is displayed no longer triggers a prompt override.

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The daemon detects and clears Codex usage-limit banners through validated pane observations. It compares current limit hooks with structural activity. The UI and compact CLI display qualifying usage-limit activity.

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Usage-limit activity handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect and clear Codex limit banners
packages/daemon/src/domain/codex-pane-patterns.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/provider/codex-limit-banner.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/seat-structural-activity-service.ts, packages/daemon/src/startup.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/session-transport.ts, packages/daemon/test/codex-limit-banner.test.ts
Composer and turn-status patterns determine whether a limit banner is current. Recognized captures emit a banner or null. The recorder clears a limit only when the latest event has a matching generation and an earlier timestamp. Tests cover detection, clearing guards, and recovery.
Reconcile current limit hooks
packages/daemon/src/domain/node-inventory.ts, packages/daemon/test/codex-limit-banner.test.ts, packages/daemon/test/send-prompt-guard.test.ts
The daemon compares a current at_limit hook with structural observations. A strictly newer attention observation takes precedence. Tests cover event chronology, live motion, generation changes, and ordinary prompt sending.
Recognize and display current limits
packages/ui/src/hooks/useNodeInventory.ts, packages/ui/src/lib/activity-visuals.ts, packages/ui/src/components/*, packages/ui/test/usage-limit-display.test.tsx
The UI identifies fresh, typed usage-limit activity and passes activity details to labels. Newer needs_input and blocked visuals take precedence in the overview table.
Include current limits in compact CLI output
packages/cli/src/commands/ps.ts, packages/cli/test/ps-compact.test.ts
Compact output includes the reason for a current usage limit without classifying it as human attention. Tests cover stale activity and startup failure.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lab1207

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c7d1a

A Codex seat that has recovered from a usage limit can keep showing "usage limit" and be left out of rig ps --nodes --active. This happens when newer work appears below the submitted prompt without a status line. Main shows such a seat as running, so this should be fixed before merge.

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Thanks, @XTLine, for another fix following #1156. As you describe it, a current Codex usage limit now stays visible when the terminal redraws, and rig ps keeps showing the usage limit as the seat's reason. A stale limit still gives way to current activity, and ordinary sends are still allowed. We'll review it and comment here.

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Thanks, @XTLine. This fixes a real masking bug: during a Codex usage limit, terminal redraws turned the limit into running. Now a current limit stays visible in the inventory and in rig ps text and JSON, and ordinary sends behave as before. We tested your first version against main on a test build, through the real poller, store and inventory, and we've read 9b990c5 too: the newer-permission-prompt rule is right and can stay. A strictly newer prompt wins, and a missing or unparseable time falls back to the limit.

One change, so that a seat that has recovered reads as it does on main:

  • Codex has no hook for its usage limit, so once the limit resets, nothing replaces the stored limit until the seat's next hook event. The poller clears only its in-memory copy of the banner (clearRecordedBanner, called from seat-structural-activity-service.ts), and the stored limit is left in place.
  • On a test build, after the banner is gone and the pane shows newer working content, main shows the seat as running (reason window_activity_motion), and rig ps --nodes --active includes it. With this PR it stays unknown (reason usage_limit) for up to 5 minutes, until the next hook event or until the stored limit expires, and drops out of --active.
  • Please end the limit when the poller's banner check sees the banner gone, for example by recording an observation that supersedes it, so the seat reads as it does on main from that poll on.
  • Tests: the "newer idle" case expects usage_limit for a pane with no banner, so please change it to expect the reading main gives for a pane with no banner. Please also add a recovery case: the banner is gone, and a later working poll reads running (reason window_activity_motion) and is included in --active.

The rest is good as it is. After your push, we'll review the change, and then there's a final maintainer check before merge.

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Thanks, @XTLine. The recovery fix works. We tested it against main on a test build: once the banner is gone and the seat is working again, it reads as working from the first poll, without waiting for a hook, and it's back in rig ps --nodes --active. A current limit still survives terminal redraws, and the guards for older captures and for a different occupant hold.

One change, so the limit is cleared only when it's really over. Our last suggestion was to end the limit when the banner check sees the banner gone, and that check can miss a banner that's still on screen. We tested frames built around a real Codex banner (we haven't measured how often Codex shows a banner in these states):

  • A whitespace-only capture records the limit as cleared, where main keeps it current.
  • With the banner still on screen above a draft in the composer (› Continue the task) or above an indented empty composer (› Ask Codex to do anything with leading spaces), the detector misses the banner, because INPUT_LINE_RE only matches an unindented empty composer. The limit is recorded as cleared, and later polls of the same frame keep it cleared until a recognised banner appears again.

Please record the clear only when the capture positively shows recovery, for example a non-empty frame the classifier recognises, with no banner in it, and recognise the banner above those composer forms. Treating only unrecognised captures as unresolved would still miss the indented-composer case, since that frame is recognised and only the banner match fails. Tests for these three cases (the whitespace-only capture and the banner above each composer form), alongside your recovery test, would pin it.

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Thanks, @XTLine. The three frames from the last round are fixed: a whitespace-only capture keeps the limit, and the banner is recognised above a draft and above an indented composer on every poll. We tested it against main on a test build. Recovery still clears on the first readable poll, whether the seat is working or finished, and the history case (an old banner, a submitted prompt, newer output, then the composer at the bottom) reads as recovered. CI is green.

One more change: INPUT_LINE_RE now matches any › line, and isMostRecent takes the last one. When that last › line is a submitted prompt rather than the composer, everything below it counts as input area, so newer working output no longer ends an old banner. We tested this frame, built around a real Codex banner: the old banner, then › Continue the task, then ◦ Working (2s • esc to interrupt), with no composer below. Main reads the seat as running and lists it in rig ps --nodes --active. With this version, the old banner is treated as current, so the seat reads unknown with a usage-limit reason, drops out of --active, and later polls of the same frame keep the seat in that state. We haven't seen this frame in a real session or measured how often Codex shows one without the composer at the bottom.

Please let newer working output below an old banner end it even when the last › line isn't the composer, and keep the draft and indented-composer fixes. How you do that is up to you. A test for this frame, alongside the others, would pin it.

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Recognize newer work below a submitted prompt.

If a capture contains an old banner, a submitted › prompt, and newer work without an esc to interrupt row or bottom composer, this check does not reject the banner. The pre-prompt tail is empty, so detectCodexLimitBanner returns the old limit. The poller then retains at_limit, and the recovered seat stays out of rig ps --nodes --active. Use positive evidence of post-submit work to end the limit without treating draft text as output. Add the reported no-composer frame to the poller test.

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Thanks, @XTLine. The frame from the last round is fixed. We tested it against main on a test build: an old banner, then a submitted prompt, then Codex's working line with no composer below now reads as running and is back in rig ps --nodes --active. Everything from the earlier rounds still holds: the whitespace-only capture, the banner above a draft or an indented composer, recovery on the first readable poll, redraws, and the history case with a composer at the bottom. CI is green.

One more change, and this time as a rule rather than another frame: nothing the person has typed into an unsent draft should count as evidence that the limit has ended. We tested this frame, with the banner still current and a three-line unsent draft below it:

› Explain this example
  › Continue the task
  • Working (1s • esc to interrupt)

The second and third lines are typed text. From Codex's renderer code, a draft's continuation lines are drawn in the composer's two-column gutter. This version takes the indented › line as the composer, so the typed status line ends the limit: the seat records the limit as cleared, reads running, appears in --active, and stays that way on later polls of the same frame. Main keeps the limit current. The same happens when the draft's first line is blank, and the rule covers both. The previous version cleared on this frame too; we hadn't tested it then. We haven't seen this frame in a real session, and we haven't measured how often it happens.

Please keep the fix from the last round, where a real working line after a submitted prompt ends an old banner, while treating everything inside the draft, including › and status-like lines in its continuation lines, as the person's text. How you do that is up to you. Please add a test for this frame too, alongside the last round's.

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Thanks, I see the gap now. The nested › and status-looking lines are still part of the unsent draft, so they should not clear the limit.

I’ll keep continuation lines inside the draft boundary, including when the first line is blank, and add regressions for both cases alongside the real working-line recovery case from the last round. I’ll also check the no-status-row case raised in the inline review without using draft text as recovery evidence.

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Pushed f540cf1. The banner check now keeps continuation lines with their outer prompt, so nested › markers, status-looking text and typed fences cannot turn an unsent draft into recovery evidence. This also covers a blank first line and preserves the real working-line recovery from the previous round.

Both reported drafts now keep the stored limit and stay out of --active across repeated polls. The 122-test regression file produces 45 failures on the previous commit and passes with this change; 530 focused tests, the workspace build and lint pass locally. These are synthetic capture tests through the real poller/store/inventory path, not a claim about native Codex frequency.

For the inline no-status-row case, I have not broadened recovery to arbitrary prose or bullets: without another structural boundary, those can still be draft/footer text. Could you share the exact capture for that case? I’d like to pin it down without weakening the draft rule.

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Approved at f540cf1. A current Codex usage limit stays visible: while the banner is current the seat reads usage_limit in inventory, compact rig ps and the web labels, across polls and redraws, and ordinary sends still go through. It clears on positive recovery evidence: a newer turn-status row after the last submitted prompt, or a readable frame with no banner. Nothing typed into an unsent draft counts as recovery, including › lines, status-like text and typed fences in its continuation lines. Newer permission, blocked and startup-error states keep their priority. Known limitation: when an old banner is followed by a submitted prompt and assistant prose or bullets, with no turn-status row and no composer below, this version keeps the limit and renews it after five minutes, where main lets it age out (and, with screen motion, reads the seat as running). We have not seen that frame in a real Codex session, and the same text can also be an unsent draft above footer text. Required CI passed at this head.

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Thanks, @XTLine, for six rounds of careful work, each one answered with tests. It's merged, so once it ships, a current Codex usage limit stays visible for anyone running Codex seats.

We tested the last fix against main on a test build. With a current banner, an unsent draft no longer clears the limit: the three-line draft from our last comment, the same draft with a blank first line, nested › lines, status-like text, typed fences, and wrapped and pasted text all keep the limit across repeated polls, as main does. Your 122-case file passes, and 45 of its cases fail on the previous commit. The working-line recovery from the round before still clears on the first readable poll.

Here's the capture you asked for. We built it from the code; we haven't seen it in a real Codex session:

 long output above
■ You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (...), visit
https://chatgpt.com/codex/settings/usage to purchase more credits or try again at 4:14 AM.
› Continue the task
• I continued and finished the remaining work.

The results on that frame, with an old limit stored:

  • On main: with screen motion, the seat reads running and is in rig ps --nodes --active. Without motion, it reads usage_limit until the old limit ages out after five minutes, then unknown.
  • With this PR: it reads usage_limit and stays out of --active, with or without motion, and after five minutes it records the limit again.
  • Plain prose instead of the bullet, or two bullets, give the same results.

We merged with this as a known limitation. We haven't seen the frame in a real session, and, as you pointed out, the same text could also be an unsent draft above footer text. If either of us comes across a real capture, or a reliable way to tell the two apart, we'll look at it again then. Our approval on this PR describes the limitation, and the release notes will too.

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An update, @XTLine: OpenRig 0.6.11 is out on npm, and this change is in it (release notes: https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig/releases/tag/v0.6.11). As we said, the release notes also describe, under Known issues, the limitation we discussed before merging. Thanks again.

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