Got "exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests"

[atimmer]

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.98.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.3-codex

What platform is your computer?

mac OS

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

iTerm2

What issue are you seeing?

Out of the blue I get "exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests".

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Don't know. I've uploaded a feedback with id "019c4c21-f321-7683-94e6-df166c4bfb05".

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

No response

[github-actions]

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• Subagents are off, yet /review uses them #11354
• 429 Too Many Requests somehow #11083
• Intermittent interruption of model: exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests, request id: 9c858ed14adedcfe-SJC #10564
• exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests, request id: 9c856ab56db2e84f-ATL #10560
• exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests, request id: 9c84c9bb1be2349f-SJC #10554

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[etraut-openai]

Do you have the experimental multi-agents feature ("collab") enabled? If you have many parallel subagents running concurrently, they can trigger this error.

If you don't have that feature enabled, do you have any other non-default settings enabled in your config.toml file?

[atimmer]

Do you have the experimental multi-agents feature ("collab") enabled? If you have many parallel subagents running concurrently, they can trigger this error.

If you don't have that feature enabled, do you have any other non-default settings enabled in your config.toml file?

I have the following features enabled:

  16 │ [features]
  17 │ ghost_commit = false
  18 │ unified_exec = true
  19 │ apply_patch_freeform = true
  20 │ skills = true
  21 │ shell_snapshot = true

[sundongzi]

thread ID 019c8e66-2737-7fd0-9f4c-d8c6b99a8c11

[samiskin]

thread ID 019c92b3-e59e-7ab3-969b-536d2cf6a4a5

[zzhang-pcm]

thread ID 019c9546-ab2b-7ce0-8c4b-5a813a830cbc

[aryan1107]

same out of nowhere exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests, request id: b6ee47c6-48ac-4b69-af23-353e1ce0148b

[davidsavoie1]

thread ID 019c953d-b34b-7463-95cd-e247708a39a6

[21PeaksDigital]

Same here. Thread ID 1d91e63b-44ff-454d-99be-d2580665f4c0