Phone country scheduling: chunk limits must cycle until the global budget is exhausted

Trigger

Use this note for OpenAI add-phone / 5sim phone verification runners that accept:

an ordered country list, e.g. italy,poland,spain,england
a global attempt budget, e.g. 20
a per-country consecutive-failure cap, e.g. 3

Pitfall observed

A runner built for:

Italy/Poland/Spain/UK
max 3 consecutive failures per country
total attempts 20

used this shape:

for country in ORDER:
    local_attempt = 0
    while total < MAX_TOTAL and local_attempt < MAX_CONSECUTIVE:
        attempt(country)

This works for total <= len(ORDER) * MAX_CONSECUTIVE, e.g. 10 attempts with 4 countries and chunk size 3. But for total=20, it can only produce:

Italy x3 -> Poland x3 -> Spain x3 -> UK x3 = 12 attempts

Then it exits early because the outer for country in ORDER is exhausted.

Correct scheduling rule

When BOSS says:

这些地区测试 N 次，每个地区连续失败 K 次就切换下一地区

interpret N as the global budget and K as the maximum consecutive attempts for one country. The country list must cycle until either success or N attempts are consumed.

For ORDER=[italy,poland,spain,england], N=20, K=3, expected schedule is:

1-3:   italy
4-6:   poland
7-9:   spain
10-12: england
13-15: italy
16-18: poland
19-20: spain

Do not stop at 12 merely because every country had one chunk.

Reference implementation

def schedule_countries(order, max_total, max_consecutive):
    total = 0
    while total < max_total:
        progressed = False
        for country in order:
            for local in range(1, max_consecutive + 1):
                if total >= max_total:
                    return
                total += 1
                progressed = True
                yield total, country, local
        if not progressed:
            return

Use the yielded total as the global attempt number and local as the consecutive attempt number within the current country chunk.

Other gates still apply

Do not buy a 5sim activation unless the active OpenAI page is already a usable auth.openai.com/add-phone page.
Re-check visible country/area-code before buying and before submit.
If OpenAI resend channel probes as WhatsApp and BOSS policy is SMS-only, cancel the activation and rotate/stop.
If 5sim buy returns HTTP 200 text/plain such as no free phones, classify as inventory miss; no activation exists and no cancellation is needed.
Close stale OAuth/OpenAI tabs before opening fresh recovery tabs unless the current tab is already the usable add-phone page.

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