I never saw that happen in Codex so there's a good chance that OpenClaw does something wrong. My main suspicion would be that it does not pass back thinking traces.

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vintagedave 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Anecdata, but I see this in Codex all the time. It takes about two rounds before it realises it's supposed to continue.

	▲	dgunay 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I started seeing this a lot more with GPT 5.4. 5.3-codex is really good about patiently watching and waiting on external processes like CI, or managing other agents async. 5.4 keeps on yielding its turn to me for some reason even as it says stuff like "I'm continuing to watch and wait."