fix(codex): name the usage limit and its reset instead of relaying "out of credits"

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Closes #10472.

What Changed

When Codex stops a turn for a usage limit, the failed turn now names the limit, its reset, and the next step, instead of relaying OpenAI's sentence verbatim:

• Business or Enterprise workspace, weekly window exhausted: "Codex usage limit reached. The weekly limit resets in 5d 5h. The workspace has no credits to continue sooner: ask your workspace owner to add credits, or send the message again once the limit resets."
• Plus or Pro plan window: "Codex usage limit reached. The session limit resets in 3h 20m. Send the message again once the limit resets."
• Workspace spend cap: the same shape, naming the spend limit and the owner.
• No rate-limit snapshot in the turn: "Codex usage limit reached. Send the message again once the limit resets."

Same model as the Claude fix in #10321, with less state: the adapter keeps the session's last rate-limit snapshot, merged from every account/rateLimits/updated (Codex sends sparse updates that never clear earlier values, and model-specific snapshots such as Spark are ignored as the usage rows already do). The limit's error notification is dropped, since the failed turn/completed repeats its sentence, and that completion composes the message from the snapshot for both the runtime.error and the turn's errorMessage. The provider's original sentence rides along as the error's detail. No per-turn state, so concurrent turns cannot cross. Server only: no contract, client, orchestration, or turn-state change; the turn fails the same way it does today.

Why

On a Business workspace the relayed text was "Your workspace is out of credits. Ask your workspace owner to refill in order to continue." while Usage → Limits showed the weekly window at 0% with a reset in 5d 5h. Credits are the optional overflow once a window is exhausted; the cause is the window, and the reset T3 already holds was never shown. Users read "out of credits" as a billing problem to escalate, when the honest answer is "your weekly limit resets in five days".

UI Changes

Same fake app-server replay, same thread. Before: OpenAI's sentence, relayed. After: the window, its reset, and the next step.

The real thread and the Limits tab it contradicts are in #10472.

No motion, so no video.

Verification

• vp test run apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.test.ts apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexUsageLimits.test.ts — 71 tests pass, including the session-driven cases (credits depleted with the weekly window, two limit stops back to back, plan limit with the session window, a snapshot seen earlier in the session with only a sparse update in the turn, no snapshot at all, and a control error with another codexErrorInfo that still surfaces unchanged), the message function's branches including a credits-only stop with no reset, and the snapshot merge keeping earlier windows and ignoring model-specific snapshots.
• Server typecheck clean on the touched files; lint and format clean.
• Captured in the web client against a fake codex app-server that replays the exact notification sequence from the real stop (error with usageLimitExceeded → account/rateLimits/updated with workspace_member_credits_depleted, weekly 100%, reset +5d 5h → failed turn/completed). A live capture needs an exhausted Business workspace, which is the state in the issue's screenshots.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes (nothing moves)

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Note

Name the Codex usage limit and its reset instead of relaying "out of credits"

• Adds codexUsageLimits.ts with snapshot merging, wait-duration formatting, and reason-specific guidance for credit or spend-limit exhaustion
• The adapter in CodexAdapter.ts now stores per-session rate-limit snapshots, merges incoming updates, and emits a formatted provider runtime error before the failed completed turn when a usage-limit marker is present
• Suppresses the duplicate provider usage-limit error notification since the failed turn already reports the condition; unrelated provider errors still relay normally
• Adds user docs in providers-codex.md explaining the new usage-limit guidance
• Behavioral Change: the provider's raw usage-limit error notification is no longer relayed; callers now receive a synthetic runtime error with the formatted message plus the original provider detail attached

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Codex usage-limit errors identify the exhausted window, reset timing, and applicable workspace credit or spending-limit action.
  • Usage-limit details appear consistently in runtime errors and completed-turn messages.
  • Unrelated provider errors continue to display their original messages.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance for resolving Codex usage limits and retrying after the reset.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Codex usage-limit handling now combines provider errors with rate-limit snapshots. It identifies the exhausted window, formats reset and workspace guidance, emits a runtime error, and propagates the message to failed turns. Tests and documentation cover the new behavior.

Changes

Codex usage-limit reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Usage-limit message contract apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexUsageLimits.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexUsageLimits.test.ts	Adds rate-limit merging, exhausted-window selection, reset formatting, workspace next-step messages, and focused tests.
Adapter usage-limit event flow apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts	Latches usage-limit events and rate-limit snapshots, suppresses duplicate errors, emits a formatted runtime.error, and adds the same message to failed turn.completed events.
Adapter validation and documentation apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.test.ts, docs/user/providers-codex.md	Tests weekly and session limits, missing snapshots, event ordering, and unrelated provider errors. Documents the reported usage-limit behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5ac3b

Usage-limit failures may still omit the exhausted window, reset time, and next-step guidance when the rate-limit update arrives after turn completion. This ordering case should be handled before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CodexProvider
  participant CodexAdapter
  participant UsageLimitFormatter
  participant Runtime
  CodexProvider->>CodexAdapter: rate-limit snapshot
  CodexAdapter->>UsageLimitFormatter: merge snapshot
  CodexProvider->>CodexAdapter: usageLimitExceeded turn failure
  CodexAdapter->>UsageLimitFormatter: build usage-limit message
  UsageLimitFormatter-->>CodexAdapter: window and reset message
  CodexAdapter->>Runtime: runtime.error
  CodexAdapter->>Runtime: failed turn with errorMessage

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 44.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #10472. They identify the exhausted Codex limit, reset time, workspace credit or spend-limit guidance, plan-limit guidance, and fallback behavior while preserving the existin…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are within scope. The adapter logic, usage-limit helpers, tests, and Codex documentation directly support the linked issue objectives. No unrelated client, contract, orchestration, or turn…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: replacing the generic Codex usage-limit message with the named limit and reset time.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is complete and well aligned with the template. It explains what changed and why, includes before-and-after UI screenshots, completes the checklist, and documents verification results.…

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Verdict: Approved at 9d85e6f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused Codex error-message fix rather than a new capability: it names the exhausted limit, reset time, and workspace action while leaving unrelated provider errors unchanged. The production impact is localized and supported by comprehensive adapter and utility tests.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts`:
- Line 2383: The turn/completed handling around usageLimitMessage must defer
reporting a usage-limit failure until the corresponding
account/rateLimits/updated snapshot is available, rather than permanently
formatting it from stale limits. Update the CodexAdapter synchronization flow so
the pending turn is finalized after the rate-limit update and both runtime.error
and turn.completed reflect the snapshot; add a regression test covering
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