Goal failed twice with "Failed to read thread goal: thread/goal/get failed in TUI" but still used tokens. Went from over 70% left to 4% of my 5h limit.

[Nick-Bug-Bounty-Hunter]

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.131.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

got-5.5 high

What platform is your computer?

arwin 23.6.0 arm64 arm

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

Terminal.app

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}

What issue are you seeing?

Goal failed twice with "Failed to read thread goal: thread/goal/get failed in TUI" but still used tokens. Went from over 70% left to 4% of my 5h limit.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Try to run a goal, get "Failed to read thread goal: thread/goal/get failed in TUI" error.

What is the expected behavior?

Receiving the error doesn't tell me why it failed. But at least, it shouldn't have used up all my tokens as if it had run the goal.

Additional information

No response

[github-actions]

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

• Failed to read thread goal: thread/goal/get failed in TUI #24153
• Meta: /goal failures hide DB/schema/process mismatch after goal storage changes #23984

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[etraut-openai]

If you still have the session available, please resume it and run /feedback. Then upload logs and session details and post the session ID here.

If you're using CLI 0.131.0, the /goal feature was not enabled by default because it was still experimental. I suspect that you didn't have it enabled, so your prompt was treated as a normal (non-goal) prompt. If you update to the latest version of the CLI (0.133.0 or newer), the /goal feature is no longer experimental and is enabled by default.