fix(codex): renew opted-in main credits before expiry (#6692)

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Summary

Opted-in main accounts with a full included usage window can lose admission when their cached credit observation reaches five minutes, even though the account still holds spendable credits. The existing background sweep now renews valid, previously spendable positive or unlimited evidence from three minutes of age, including while the dashboard is closed. Missing, zero, restricted, retracted, invalid or other-account evidence never initiates this renewal.

Token preparation remains before WHAM; eligibility is rechecked afterwards. The renewal probe's optional passive mode survives identity retries and neither sets nor clears needs-reauth. All other probe callers retain their current auth behavior. Ownership, single-flight, credential/identity fences, shared query pacing, terminal-failure backoff and upstream Retry-After remain enforced. Failed or incomplete reads cannot refresh credit freshness or release a refusal.

Closes #6692. Supersedes #6693's approach by renewing authenticated evidence before expiry while preserving the existing admission and refusal contract. The earlier src/codex/auth-context.ts, refusal-message and shortened Retry-After changes, and their matching documentation/tests, were removed from this PR. The original hard-lock recovery and main-credit admission regression files match origin/dev; renewal coverage lives in a registered sibling file. English and Chinese guidance and the owning structure documents describe the resulting behavior.

Merged origin/dev at 42a571f13a4d7f62415c82b9c0b4f1a0c7a641b4 into the contributor branch without rebasing or rewriting history.

Verification

All local commands ran in the isolated h2-credits checkout with Bun 1.4.0, protected test preload, temporary fixture homes, synthetic credentials and mocked network requests. No live account/service proof is claimed.

• RED before the implementation: bun test ./tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts — 14 passed / 26 failed. Failures included absent three-minute renewal and unwanted lookups for excluded credit evidence. The expiry reproduction produced the existing local 429.
• RED mutation of the passive change: restored the original probe implementation, then ran bun test ./tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts --test-name-pattern passive — 0 passed / 4 failed, proving terminal-auth marking and successful clearing through identity retries. Restored the fix before final validation.
• Final focused regressions and guards:

bun test ./tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts ./tests/codex-integration/main-account-hard-lock-recovery.test.ts ./tests/codex-integration/codex-credits-after-limit-main.test.ts ./tests/codex-integration/codex-credits-after-limit.test.ts ./tests/codex-integration/codex-quota-parser-parity.test.ts ./tests/codex-integration/codex-auth-api.test.ts ./tests/codex-integration/codex-quota-query-backoff.test.ts ./tests/test-layout.test.ts ./tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts ./tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts

Result: 587 passed / 0 failed, 3,367 assertions across 10 files. Covers dashboard-hidden renewal, expiry/refusal, admission after renewal, failed/empty/incomplete/restricted renewal, expired access tokens with valid or failed refresh grants, passive terminal 401/403, reauth preservation through identity retries, all exclusions, post-token eligibility changes, overlapping ticks, default caller behavior, and pacing.

• bun run typecheck — passed, no diagnostics.
• bun run structure:check — passed.
• bun run privacy:scan — passed.
• git diff --cached --check — passed.
• bun install --cwd docs-site --frozen-lockfile — passed without lockfile changes.
• bun run --cwd docs-site build — passed; 561 pages and 78,111 internal links checked.
• The new test is registered in both layout inventories; scripts/test-layout/layout.json stays at 1,998 lines and no file-size caps were raised.

The full local suite was not run: this bounded parallel lane is limited to focused regression/static checks, and the coordinator owns the final Cross-platform CI run. CI was neither waited on, rerun nor cancelled here; exact-head hosted verification and explicit maintainer authentication/security review remain pending before integration. No merge or release is claimed.

Mixed passive/non-passive concurrency correction

Validated commit 9fa86a5901e7e56af5c7c527680669886ffaafd3 fixes the independent review's blocking terminal-auth finding. A non-passive caller joining passive renewal now invalidates cached main info and applies its normal terminal 401/403 quarantine behind the existing credential/configuration fences. Its diagnostic generation accounts for that synchronous invalidation. Passive callers remain inert; successful joined explicit refreshes retain their normal clearing behavior.

• RED at cda6402eb83c964ac921cbad68e0b8a70d49e600: bun test ./tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts --test-name-pattern 'joining passive|joined terminal-auth' — 4 passed / 4 failed. All four terminal 401/403 × explicit/background joiners failed the expected quarantine assertion; network was mocked and a deterministic barrier proved one shared WHAM request.
• GREEN with the fix: the same command — 8 passed / 0 failed. Coverage includes both successful clearing/preservation cases and stale credential/configuration rejection. The terminal cases also verify cache invalidation and live diagnostic generation.
• Final focused command (the ten-file command above) — 595 passed / 0 failed, 3,443 assertions. Final renewal file alone: bun test ./tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts — 55 passed / 0 failed.
• bun run typecheck, bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, and git diff --cached --check — passed.
• Only the probe, its existing registered renewal test, and the owning account structure paragraph changed. Both test-layout inventories remain valid; scripts/test-layout/layout.json remains 1,998 lines, and the file-size ratchet passes.
• Full local suite and live account proof remain outside this bounded lane. Hosted CI was not waited on, rerun, or cancelled. Final-head independent security review and hosted CI remain for the coordinator.

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• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. Explicit maintainer security review remains pending; local negative regressions and privacy scan passed.

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Co-authored-by: AiriDea 28827642+AiriDea@users.noreply.github.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Eligible main accounts can now passively refresh positive spendable credit balances in the background when the balance observation is at least three minutes old. Requests are still refused once the observation expires after five minutes.
  • Refreshes follow existing account restrictions and retry pacing; failed or incomplete lookups do not extend the balance’s validity.
• Documentation
  • Updated integration and account policy guidance with credit refresh behavior and eligibility details.

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Walkthrough

The main-account recovery sweep now renews eligible credit observations before their five-minute freshness limit. Passive usage probes preserve reauthentication state, including across identity retries. Integration tests and documentation cover renewal conditions, exclusions, failures, and retry pacing.

Changes

Main-account credit recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Credit renewal eligibility and execution src/codex/auth-api/pool-mode-gate.ts, tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-integration.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-cn/guides/codex-integration.md, structure/providers/openai-tiers.md	The recovery sweep checks for eligible, spendable credits observed at least three minutes earlier. It prepares a token before the authenticated usage lookup and rechecks eligibility. Tests cover freshness expiry, exclusions, failed lookups, concurrent sweeps, and retry pacing. Documentation describes the renewal rules and existing spending controls.
Passive probe authentication behavior src/codex/auth-api/main-account-probe.ts, tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts, structure/providers/openai-accounts.md, structure/providers/openai-tiers.md	Probe options propagate through identity retries. Passive probes do not set or clear reauthentication state on successful usage results or terminal authentication failures. Tests cover those cases and recovery backoff; documentation describes passive behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RecoverySweep
  participant TokenPreparation
  participant MainAccountProbe
  participant WHAM
  RecoverySweep->>RecoverySweep: Check renewal eligibility
  RecoverySweep->>TokenPreparation: Prepare a valid token
  TokenPreparation-->>RecoverySweep: Return prepared token
  RecoverySweep->>MainAccountProbe: Start passive usage probe
  MainAccountProbe->>WHAM: Send authenticated usage lookup
  WHAM-->>MainAccountProbe: Return usage and credit data

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The renewal behavior preserves the five-minute admission limit, and no actionable issue is established that needs to be fixed before merge.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #6692 requires opted-in main-account requests to retain admission when positive credits remain spendable but the cached observation approaches its five-minute limit. `src/codex/auth-api/pool-mod…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reviewed changes stay within issue #6692. The probe changes in src/codex/auth-api/main-account-probe.ts support safe passive renewal and preserve existing behavior for other callers. The new int…
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: renewing opted-in main-account credits before the existing evidence expires. It matches the implementation and stated objectives.

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Independent reproduction on a pool containing only the main account (no failover), confirming the same expiry hole this PR closes.

Environment

• opencodex 2.78.0 (npm global; still the published latest), Windows 11 Pro 26H2 (build 26300.9457), observed through the Codex App.
• providers.openai.codexAccountMode = "pool"; activeCodexAccountId = "__main__"; codexMainAccountHardLock = false; codexAccountPriorityFailback unset; creditCodexAccountIds = ["__main__"].
• Plan: ChatGPT Pro. rate_limit.primary.used_percent = 100 (10080 min window), credits = { has_credits: true, balance: ~60400, overage_limit_reached: false }, spend_control not reached.

Symptom

With "Use credits after limit" on, requests succeed for roughly five minutes after a quota probe, then every request routed to the openai account -- both openai/* and openai-1m/* -- is refused locally (6-32 ms, no upstream dispatch) with the credits-off message, until something probes the balance again. Because the pool holds a single account, the Codex App exhausts its retries and the turn dies:

exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests

Where it comes from

The 429 body is CodexMainAccountCreditsOffError from src/codex/auth-context.ts, reached via mainCreditsHoldResetAt -> hasSpendableCodexCredits in src/codex/quota-types.ts. Of that function's five disqualifiers, four were false in the cached observation (hasCredits !== false, allowed !== false, overageLimitReached !== true, balance > 0), leaving only age > CODEX_CREDITS_FRESHNESS_MS.

Measurement: nothing renews it

No ocx command was issued during this window; only the quota cache file was read.

local (UTC-7)   credits.observedAt       age
06:56:32        1791294970958            21 s
07:03:52        1791294970958            ~461 s   <- never moved

(1791294970958 = 2026-10-06T13:56:10.958Z.)

This is the evidence the PR description notes is missing: the observation is not renewed by any caller. It is not a dashboard refresh that was missed -- nothing on the request path probes it at all.

An explicit probe renews it immediately and service returns:

$ ocx account refresh openai
main p***o@gmail.com  pro  weekly 100%  resets 2026-10-09T21:14:47.000Z
# credits.observedAt jumped to now; no model validation, no reset credit consumed

All 99 requests routed in the following ~11 minutes returned 200 (50 of them openai/*, zero 429); the newest 429 in the log predates the probe. A periodic manual probe is currently the only remedy an operator has, which is why this needs a fix rather than a documented workaround.

Request-path audit

• src/codex/auth-context.ts: the lazy prime after authentication is gated on !getAccountQuota(accountId) || priorityFailback. This account always has a stored quota and priority failback is not configured, so it never fires.
• src/codex/auth-api/pool-mode-gate.ts: even if it did fire with reason !== "priority-failback", primeMain returns early whenever a stored quota exists.
• GET /api/codex-auth/accounts without refresh=1 does not refresh.

So in this configuration nothing on the request path re-observes credits, and the opted-in account is held from the moment the evidence expires.

Two smaller points this PR may want to cover

1. Retry-After: the refusal is a 429 with Retry-After equal to the weekly reset (~288000 s). That is why the client gives up after ~2 minutes instead of retrying across a hole that clears in seconds. A short Retry-After for this specific condition would make the failure self-healing even before this PR lands.
2. Message accuracy: it reads "spending ChatGPT credits is off or no fresh spendable balance is available", while the account is opted in and the balance is non-zero. Expired evidence is the one condition the text does not name, which sends the operator to the credit switch first (I did exactly that, and the switch was already on).

No tokens, account ids, emails or request credentials are included.

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@lidge-jun @Ingwannu Could you review the authentication/spending boundary in auth-context.ts and apply maintainer-sponsored if acceptable? The change distinguishes existing credit refusals and adds a stale-only check-again hint. Admission, real reset time, native ownership, hard lock, zero-balance/spending controls and known query/upstream delays remain protected; enabling credits does not provide funds.

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src/codex/auth-api/pool-mode-gate.ts (1)

101-104: LGTM!

Also applies to: 119-122, 133-138, 150-150, 161-165

tests/codex-integration/main-account-credit-renewal.test.ts (1)

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The ja, ko, and ru guides do not state behavior that conflicts with the new renewal paragraph. They omit that detail, but the supplied docs rule requires avoiding contradictions, not translating every addition. The proposed sync finding is unsupported.

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Check the eligibility window boundary: renewal can schedule at most about 2 minutes of retries before evidence expires.

creditRecoveryNeeded() requires hasSpendableCodexCredits(quota, observedAt). Because that call passes observedAt as now, the age is 0, so the freshness check always passes. Eligibility therefore stays true after the five-minute limit as long as the stored flags are positive. The behavior may be intended, since documentation describes "previously spendable" evidence. It has one consequence. A failed renewal at minute 4 keeps the attempt scheduled through the backoff, and the sweep keeps polling WHAM indefinitely for stale evidence while the window is full. This is bounded by nextQuotaQueryDelay, so the impact is pacing only, not correctness.

Line 98 should get a short comment stating that it validates the evidence shape and not its freshness. The comment prevents a future reader from changing it to now and breaking renewal after expiry.

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Maintainer integration into dev (MAINTAINERS.md dev-only maintainer integration; not a self-approval) under the maintainer's delegated decision to proceed with truly necessary held items (2026-10-07, devlog/_plan/261007_held_items).

• Exact head: 9fa86a5901e7e56af5c7c527680669886ffaafd3.
• Scope: renews only valid previously spendable same-account credit evidence from 3 minutes of age with tokens prepared first; the background renewal probe is passive (never sets or clears needs-reauth) while non-passive joiners keep their terminal-auth quarantine (Closes [Bug] 2.79.0: opted-in main credits go stale after 5 min and requests get a local 429 with a weekly retry-after #6692; supersedes fix(codex): refresh opted-in main credits before they go stale on the recovery sweep #6693). No gui/ paths.
• Delegated security/correctness review: independent gpt-6.1-sol adversarial reviews; round 1 findings fixed on this head with regressions that fail before the fix; round 2 PASS on this exact head.
• Local verification on the union of fix(codex): renew opted-in main credits before expiry (#6692) #6669, fix(antigravity): rotate web-search validation refusals #6710, fix(claude): stop re-attaching the token footer as a user turn #6714 and fix(kiro): surface a dead refresh token as needing re-auth #6716 merged onto current origin/dev: the ten changed test files 269 pass; layout/tooling/file-size-ratchet guards 27 pass; tsc --noEmit 0; structure:check pass; layout.json 1998 lines.
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