ChatGPT Work schedules: minimum remaining usage thresholds and deferral without consuming quota

ChatGPT Feature requests
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I use ChatGPT Work schedules to automatically organize email. A scheduled run can wake up but fail to complete because of usage limits. From my experience, these incomplete attempts also seem to consume or affect the remaining five-hour and weekly allowances. I do not have per-run usage records to verify this, so I would appreciate clarification on how scheduled wake-ups, quota checks, and runs stopped by usage limits are counted.

I would like to request the following scheduling controls:

  1. Check available usage before starting Work. If there is insufficient allowance, do not launch the Work task. The check and the skipped run should not consume Work/Codex quota.
  2. Let users set minimum remaining usage thresholds. For example, start a particular schedule only when at least 80% of the five-hour allowance AND 20% of the weekly allowance remain. Both thresholds should be adjustable.
  3. Defer the task and check again every hour. If either threshold is not met, keep the task pending and recheck every 1 hour. Waiting and checking should not launch a full Work session or consume its quota. Run the original task once both conditions are met.
  4. Allow regular ChatGPT scheduled tasks to read usage and control Work schedules. With user authorization, they should be able to read the remaining Work/Codex five-hour and weekly allowances and enable or pause a specific Work schedule.
  5. Make the status visible. Show why a task was deferred, when it will be checked again, and how usage is counted, so users can distinguish a postponed task from a completed one.

For email organization and similar recurring workflows, this would help avoid repeated wake-ups that produce no completed work, while allowing users to reserve capacity for other tasks.

This is a feature request. The apparent quota consumption is an observation that needs confirmation, not a claim of a verified accounting bug or an individual refund request. If others have encountered similar behavior, I would welcome observations that do not include personal account information.