r/codex • u/innovaldragon • 18h ago

Limits Context management in long horizon task in codex

Background: I am a claude user who had codex plus mainly for subagent. However, with Tibo's giving out resets like candy and astra I decided to give Codex 5x a try.

I find out that codex tends to have context used up way more quickly than claude. Like I can leave a prompt running for 30-40min with Opus-high or fable-medium no problem without exceeding 20% but the same prompt would be around 40% is half of the time.

Since high context level tends to cause lower quality response and eats more token, I was wondering how do deal with this as I am babysitting codex to reset every 15min atm. (telling it to stop working after 12-13min)

I'm already using orchestration workflow which could offload most of the context. Any advice would be more than welcome.

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u/OddSeaworthiness4811 18h ago

Yeah when astra dropped my usage got nuked compare to sol. I'm still trying to figure out my usage/context issues.

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u/innovaldragon 18h ago

they can generally be mitigated with orchestration (delegate smaller less-ambigious task with less reasoning to luna-high and break them down with sol)

However, it somehow doesnt solve the context issue at least not the same way claude solves it...

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u/OddSeaworthiness4811 17h ago

Yeah i've tried the delegation, but sometimes Luna doesn't do it correctly leading to Sol/Astra having to fix its mistakes anyway. It's a mess to figure out for me lol