codex-oauth-plus-onboarding-skill/skill/codex-oauth-plus-onboarding/references/openai-phone-free-country-continuation-1083-2026-05-11.md

Additional free-country phone runs — 1083 proxy, 2026-05-11

Context: after a successful ClawEmail signup/email verification for chickliu.efxudmrg@claw.163.com, OpenAI remained on auth.openai.com/add-phone. Browser was relaunched with the same OAuth Chrome profile but proxy changed to socks5://192.168.2.8:1083 and CDP 9226.

Observations

• Relaunching the same verified-profile Chrome with a different proxy preserved the add-phone account state, but the country selector reset to US. Always re-run the country/dial-code gate after proxy/profile relaunch.
• Vietnam-only on 1083 produced 5 immediate reject/invalid outcomes; all 5sim activations were canceled.
• A free-country 20-actual-activation run on 1083 completed with no SMS success:
  • 20 activations bought/submitted.
  • 14 direct reject/invalid and canceled.
  • 6 entered verification/wait state but received 0 SMS and were canceled.
  • Country distribution: Argentina 4, Netherlands 2, Indonesia 2, Italy 2, Poland 2, Spain 2, England 2, Germany 3, Vietnam 1.
• Germany and Argentina frequently entered phone-verification with page text indicating WhatsApp delivery; under SMS-only policy, poll 5sim briefly, cancel on zero SMS, and navigate back to /add-phone before continuing.
• After many country/phone attempts, OpenAI may show 糟糕，出错了！ Bad request. Direct navigation back to https://auth.openai.com/add-phone restored the page in this run.
• Later continuation asked for another 20 actual activations. Early observations: Argentina repeatedly entered phone-verification but timed out with 0 SMS. Treat this as a low-yield country unless BOSS explicitly wants to keep testing it.

Runner accounting rule

For long unrestricted runs, write JSONL logs and compute the final count from activation_bought lines across all chunk logs. If page errors or WhatsApp verification interrupt the run, top up only the missing number of actual activation ids; do not count no free phones, gate failures, CDP reconnects, or page recovery.

Recovery pattern

After sms_timeout_cancel from a WhatsApp/SMS-wait page, explicitly do:

Page.navigate https://auth.openai.com/add-phone
wait 5-8s
verify country controls exist
then select the next country before buying

Do not continue country-gate checks while still on /phone-verification; they will fail and waste scheduler slots.