OpenAI is testing a Codex dashboard that shows which chats are eating your usage limits

Windows build 7868 can rank up to 100 Work and Codex chats by five-hour, weekly and credit use, with a new system designed to include subagent activity under the parent task.

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RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop

Original reporting by RuntimeWire, based on reverse engineering.

Why it matters

Codex already shows account-wide capacity and reset times. The new attribution would help users identify the specific agentic job, model settings and subagent activity responsible for an unusually large drawdown.

Reporting record

Finding

OpenAI has built a gated Codex for Windows dashboard that shows users which chats and subagents are consuming their usage limits and credits.

How we verified

Methods: reverse engineering.

RuntimeWire confirmed the page title, intended audience, metrics, rollout controls and chat-ranking behavior in the production client. The accompanying image is a reconstruction using synthetic data.

RuntimeWire identified the feature by comparing consecutive production builds of Codex for Windows and reviewing the newly added interface and supporting application logic.

Tested versions:

  • ChatGPT/Codex desktop 26.901.31953 Internal build 7868 Bundled backend 0.153.1 Published September 4
  • 2026

Reproduction

RuntimeWire partially reproduced the finding.

File hashes

  • File: app.asar
  • Size: 299,073,250 bytes
  • SHA-256: 689a59eccd6b4d38f3ddaf202dac05b7cf5ca9cba93b2703f7aa8a44be90b23e

Company response

RuntimeWire requested comment; the company had not responded by publication time.

A dark-mode Codex for Windows dashboard screen displays a seven-day usage chart and a table ranking chats by their share of five-hour and weekly limits and credits used.

OpenAI is testing a Codex dashboard that traces five-hour and weekly usage back to individual agentic conversations.

A reconstruction of the gated Consumer view found in Codex for Windows build 7868. The interface structure and labels are based on the packaged application; chat names and usage values are synthetic.…

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