diff --git a/src/codex/routing.ts b/src/codex/routing.ts
index 0aebeaae229..61fe5fc4c18 100644
--- a/src/codex/routing.ts
+++ b/src/codex/routing.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import {
   type CodexUpstreamOutcomeMeta,
 } from "./routing/cooldown-math";
 import {
+  carriesQuotaRefusal,
   codexPoolKeyForScope,
   codexQuotaScopeForModel,
   deleteAccountHealth,
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ import {
   getCodexAccountCooldownUntil,
   getCodexAccountSoftAvoidUntil,
   getCodexQuotaHealthSnapshot,
+  hasUnrecoveredCodexQuotaRefusal,
   isCodexAccountSoftAvoided,
   isCodexQuotaAvoided,
   isHealthAccountAdmissible,
@@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ import {
   getEligiblePoolAccounts,
   getPoolAccountPlanForSelection,
   hasCodexQuotaHeadroom,
+  hasCodexSharedStateQuotaHeadroom,
   isCodexAccountPlanExcluded,
   isCodexAccountSelectable,
   isHealthySharedCodexSelection,
@@ -483,45 +486,6 @@ export function resolveCodexAccountForThread(
   return resolution.status === "selected" ? resolution.accountId : null;
 }
 
-function carriesQuotaRefusal(health: CodexUpstreamHealth | undefined): boolean {
-  return health?.lastFailureStatus === 429 || health?.lastFailureStatus === 402;
-}
-
-/**
- * Has this account refused a request on quota without serving one since?
- *
- * Thread affinity is a prompt-cache optimization and every rule around it is a preference:
- * `autoSwitchThreshold` is a hint that an account is getting busy, and `pool.cacheAffinity`
- * deliberately raises that bar further. A refusal is not a preference, and once the account has
- * told THIS thread it cannot serve, the binding has nothing left to optimize.
- *
- * The distinction matters because the cooldown a 429 writes is deliberately short. A reset
- * announcement is advisory — plan quota routinely frees up before the advertised instant — so
- * {@link CODEX_MAX_RESET_DERIVED_COOLDOWN_MS} caps it at 15 minutes. The five-hour window that
- * announcement describes is not capped, so an account whose burst window is spent looks
- * selectable again long before it is. For an unbound request that is correct: going back to find
- * out is how the pool learns the window moved. For a BOUND thread it is a loop with no exit —
- * the cooldown lapses, the account still scores lowest on the only window this proxy has a
- * reading for (its weekly bar, untouched by a burst limit), the thread rebinds, and earns the
- * identical 429. Cleared affinity does not help: the next request re-derives the same choice.
- * From the Codex side that reads exactly as reported — a new session rotates normally while an
- * existing one is locked to an exhausted account until the proxy is restarted, because a restart
- * is the only thing that drops the binding and the stale health together.
- *
- * `lastFailureStatus` is the right evidence because of when it ends: {@link preservedCooldownFields}
- * strips it from every recovery write, so it survives exactly until the account actually serves a
- * request again. Nothing here blocks that — selection is untouched, so unbound traffic still probes
- * the account and the first success releases every thread this refused.
- *
- * Scope follows where the refusal was recorded. An account-wide throttle lands in
- * `upstreamHealth` and releases every lane; a reset-derived refusal lands against one native
- * quota group, so a spent Spark window still cannot displace the same thread's Terra binding.
- */
-function hasUnrecoveredCodexQuotaRefusal(accountId: string, quotaScope?: CodexQuotaScope): boolean {
-  if (carriesQuotaRefusal(getAccountHealth(accountId))) return true;
-  return quotaScope !== undefined && carriesQuotaRefusal(scopedHealthFor(accountId, quotaScope));
-}
-
 function previewReusableAffinityAccount(
   entry: ThreadAffinityEntry | undefined,
   config: OcxConfig,
@@ -946,7 +910,7 @@ export function resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed(
     // the account has already told this thread it cannot serve it.
     const quotaRefused = hasUnrecoveredCodexQuotaRefusal(entry.accountId, quotaScope);
     const healthyForSharedAffinity = selectableForSharedState
-      && hasCodexQuotaHeadroom(config, entry.accountId, sharedSelectionOptions, now)
+      && hasCodexSharedStateQuotaHeadroom(config, entry.accountId, quotaScope, sharedSelectionOptions, now)
       && !quotaRefused
       && !failoverReady;
     if (
@@ -1144,7 +1108,7 @@ export function resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed(
     sharedSelectionOptions,
   );
   const activeHealthyForSharedSelection = activeSelectableForSharedState
-    && hasCodexQuotaHeadroom(config, active, sharedSelectionOptions, now)
+    && hasCodexSharedStateQuotaHeadroom(config, active, quotaScope, sharedSelectionOptions, now)
     && !shouldFailover(config, active, now);
   if (!isCodexAccountSelectable(config, active, now, quotaScope, selectionOptions)) {
     const fallback = pickLowestUsageCodexAccount(config, active, now, quotaScope, selectionOptions);
diff --git a/src/codex/routing/health-store.ts b/src/codex/routing/health-store.ts
index 9c0d922b970..57d4cc1ab30 100644
--- a/src/codex/routing/health-store.ts
+++ b/src/codex/routing/health-store.ts
@@ -350,6 +350,45 @@ export function deleteAccountHealth(accountId: string): void {
   upstreamHealth.delete(accountId);
 }
 
+export function carriesQuotaRefusal(health: CodexUpstreamHealth | undefined): boolean {
+  return health?.lastFailureStatus === 429 || health?.lastFailureStatus === 402;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Has this account refused a request on quota without serving one since?
+ *
+ * Thread affinity is a prompt-cache optimization and every rule around it is a preference:
+ * `autoSwitchThreshold` is a hint that an account is getting busy, and `pool.cacheAffinity`
+ * deliberately raises that bar further. A refusal is not a preference, and once the account has
+ * told THIS thread it cannot serve, the binding has nothing left to optimize.
+ *
+ * The distinction matters because the cooldown a 429 writes is deliberately short. A reset
+ * announcement is advisory — plan quota routinely frees up before the advertised instant — so
+ * {@link CODEX_MAX_RESET_DERIVED_COOLDOWN_MS} caps it at 15 minutes. The five-hour window that
+ * announcement describes is not capped, so an account whose burst window is spent looks
+ * selectable again long before it is. For an unbound request that is correct: going back to find
+ * out is how the pool learns the window moved. For a BOUND thread it is a loop with no exit —
+ * the cooldown lapses, the account still scores lowest on the only window this proxy has a
+ * reading for (its weekly bar, untouched by a burst limit), the thread rebinds, and earns the
+ * identical 429. Cleared affinity does not help: the next request re-derives the same choice.
+ * From the Codex side that reads exactly as reported — a new session rotates normally while an
+ * existing one is locked to an exhausted account until the proxy is restarted, because a restart
+ * is the only thing that drops the binding and the stale health together.
+ *
+ * `lastFailureStatus` is the right evidence because of when it ends: {@link preservedCooldownFields}
+ * strips it from every recovery write, so it survives exactly until the account actually serves a
+ * request again. Nothing here blocks that — selection is untouched, so unbound traffic still probes
+ * the account and the first success releases every thread this refused.
+ *
+ * Scope follows where the refusal was recorded. An account-wide throttle lands in
+ * `upstreamHealth` and releases every lane; a reset-derived refusal lands against one native
+ * quota group, so a spent Spark window still cannot displace the same thread's Terra binding.
+ */
+export function hasUnrecoveredCodexQuotaRefusal(accountId: string, quotaScope?: CodexQuotaScope): boolean {
+  if (carriesQuotaRefusal(getAccountHealth(accountId))) return true;
+  return quotaScope !== undefined && carriesQuotaRefusal(scopedHealthFor(accountId, quotaScope));
+}
+
 export function listScopedHealthEntries(accountId: string): Array<[CodexQuotaScope, CodexUpstreamHealth]> {
   return [...(quotaScopedHealth.get(accountId) ?? [])];
 }
diff --git a/src/codex/routing/selection.ts b/src/codex/routing/selection.ts
index 2720a5eaafc..9ac5538a000 100644
--- a/src/codex/routing/selection.ts
+++ b/src/codex/routing/selection.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   dropSpentCredentialFailure,
   getAccountHealth,
   getCodexQuotaHealthSnapshot,
+  hasUnrecoveredCodexQuotaRefusal,
   isCodexAccountSoftAvoided,
   isCodexQuotaAvoided,
   isIndependentCodexQuotaScope,
@@ -276,6 +277,40 @@ export function isCacheAffinityEnabled(config: OcxConfig): boolean {
   return config.pool?.cacheAffinity !== false;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether quota may retire shared state while cache affinity is active.
+ *
+ * A threshold crossing is a hint that an account is getting busy, not evidence it cannot
+ * serve — the same bar {@link mayRebindAffinityForQuota} applies to a live binding. Shared
+ * state held across a model detour gets that exhaustion boundary for the same reason: the
+ * detour is request-scoped, so retiring the binding over a hint pays a cold prefix for
+ * nothing. New/unbound selection still reads {@link hasCodexQuotaHeadroom}; only
+ * preservation of an existing shared selection or thread binding qualifies here. Like the
+ * live-binding rule, the configured threshold plays no role once retention applies: a
+ * genuinely exhausted (>=100%) account releases even with threshold switching disabled,
+ * while the fallback above keeps a disabled threshold's "never drained on quota alone".
+ */
+export function hasCodexSharedStateQuotaHeadroom(
+  config: OcxConfig,
+  accountId: string,
+  quotaScope: CodexQuotaScope | undefined,
+  selectionOptions?: CodexAccountUsabilityOptions,
+  now: number = Date.now(),
+): boolean {
+  if (
+    !isCacheAffinityEnabled(config)
+    || accountPoolStrategyForScope(config, quotaScope) !== "quota"
+  ) {
+    return hasCodexQuotaHeadroom(config, accountId, selectionOptions, now);
+  }
+  const usage = computeCodexUsageScore(
+    getAccountQuota(accountId),
+    getPoolAccountPlanForSelection(config, accountId, selectionOptions),
+    now,
+  );
+  return isUnknownUsage(usage) || usage < 100;
+}
+
 /** Earliest future shared short/weekly reset; missing evidence and ties use usage order. */
 export function pickResetFirstCodexAccount(
   config: OcxConfig,
@@ -726,7 +761,8 @@ export function isHealthySharedCodexSelection(
   selectionOptions: CodexAccountUsabilityOptions | undefined,
 ): boolean {
   return isCodexAccountSelectable(config, accountId, now, quotaScope, selectionOptions)
-    && hasCodexQuotaHeadroom(config, accountId, selectionOptions, now)
+    && hasCodexSharedStateQuotaHeadroom(config, accountId, quotaScope, selectionOptions, now)
+    && !hasUnrecoveredCodexQuotaRefusal(accountId, quotaScope)
     && !shouldFailover(config, accountId, now);
 }
 
diff --git a/structure/providers/openai-tiers.md b/structure/providers/openai-tiers.md
index c9479b1b051..0fde5683acd 100644
--- a/structure/providers/openai-tiers.md
+++ b/structure/providers/openai-tiers.md
@@ -387,8 +387,11 @@ has headroom, auth resolution validates the caller bearer's own gated-model rost
 request-owned credential before stored-Pool selection. The credential never enters Pool persistence,
 affinity, entitlement cache, or health state, and this decision never reads the physical main credential.
 If the caller lacks the requested model, a stored-account model detour may serve the request without
-clearing the healthy shared main pin. A paused or quota-drained main skips this exception and follows the
-ordinary Pool promotion path.
+clearing the healthy shared main pin. With quota-strategy cache affinity, the same detour preserves an
+ordinary added-account binding and shared selection beyond the proactive-switch threshold until genuine
+exhaustion; pause, cooldown, reauthentication, quota refusal, and failover evidence still retire shared
+state normally. A paused or quota-drained main skips the request-owned credential exception and follows
+the ordinary Pool promotion path.
 
 > Decision record: [ADR-0086](../decisions/ADR-0086-public-provider-contract.md)
 
diff --git a/tests/codex-integration/codex-routing.test.ts b/tests/codex-integration/codex-routing.test.ts
index b769a74c707..724c8a18d67 100644
--- a/tests/codex-integration/codex-routing.test.ts
+++ b/tests/codex-integration/codex-routing.test.ts
@@ -2477,6 +2477,89 @@ describe("codex account selection order", () => {
     expect(resolveCodexAccountForThread("model-gated-task", config, now + 2, "shared")).toBe("b");
   });
 
+  test("cache affinity preserves an over-threshold shared binding across a model detour", () => {
+    const config = orderedConfig({
+      accountPoolStrategy: "quota",
+      activeCodexAccountId: "a",
+      activeCodexAccountPinned: "a",
+      autoSwitchThreshold: 80,
+      pool: { cacheAffinity: true },
+    });
+    const now = Date.now();
+    updateAccountQuota("a", 10);
+    updateAccountQuota("b", 10);
+
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThread("cache-affine-model-detour", config, now, "shared")).toBe("a");
+    updateAccountQuota("a", 90);
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed(
+      "cache-affine-model-detour",
+      config,
+      now + 1,
+      "shared",
+      { modelEligibleAccountIds: new Set(["b"]) },
+    )).toMatchObject({ status: "selected", accountId: "b" });
+
+    expect(getEffectiveActiveCodexAccountId(config)).toBe("a");
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThread("cache-affine-model-detour", config, now + 2, "shared")).toBe("a");
+  });
+
+  test("cache affinity releases a fully exhausted shared binding across a model detour", () => {
+    const config = orderedConfig({
+      accountPoolStrategy: "quota",
+      activeCodexAccountId: "a",
+      activeCodexAccountPinned: "a",
+      autoSwitchThreshold: 80,
+      pool: { cacheAffinity: true },
+    });
+    const now = Date.now();
+    updateAccountQuota("a", 10);
+    updateAccountQuota("b", 10);
+
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThread("cache-affine-exhausted-detour", config, now, "shared")).toBe("a");
+    updateAccountQuota("a", 100);
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed(
+      "cache-affine-exhausted-detour",
+      config,
+      now + 1,
+      "shared",
+      { modelEligibleAccountIds: new Set(["b"]) },
+    )).toMatchObject({ status: "selected", accountId: "b" });
+
+    // Genuine exhaustion is the live-binding bar: the shared cursor follows the account
+    // that actually served instead of staying parked on the drained one.
+    expect(getEffectiveActiveCodexAccountId(config)).toBe("b");
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThread("cache-affine-exhausted-detour", config, now + 2, "shared")).toBe("b");
+  });
+
+  test("cache affinity releases an exhausted shared binding even with quota switching disabled", () => {
+    const config = orderedConfig({
+      accountPoolStrategy: "quota",
+      activeCodexAccountId: "a",
+      activeCodexAccountPinned: "a",
+      autoSwitchThreshold: 0,
+      pool: { cacheAffinity: true },
+    });
+    const now = Date.now();
+    updateAccountQuota("a", 10);
+    updateAccountQuota("b", 10);
+
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThread("cache-affine-disabled-detour", config, now, "shared")).toBe("a");
+    updateAccountQuota("a", 100);
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed(
+      "cache-affine-disabled-detour",
+      config,
+      now + 1,
+      "shared",
+      { modelEligibleAccountIds: new Set(["b"]) },
+    )).toMatchObject({ status: "selected", accountId: "b" });
+
+    // Genuine exhaustion drops the binding even when threshold switching is disabled --
+    // the same >=100% boundary a live binding gets -- and the shared selection follows
+    // the account that actually served.
+    expect(getEffectiveActiveCodexAccountId(config)).toBe("b");
+    expect(resolveCodexAccountForThread("cache-affine-disabled-detour", config, now + 2, "shared")).toBe("b");
+  });
+
   test("repeated model-gated round-robin requests reuse a separate detour affinity", () => {
     const now = 1_800_000_000_000;
     const threadId = "model-detour-affinity";
@@ -3174,7 +3257,7 @@ describe("codex account selection order", () => {
       activeCodexAccountPinned: "b",
     });
     updateAccountQuota("a", 10);
-    updateAccountQuota("b", 90);
+    updateAccountQuota("b", 100);
 
     expect(resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed(
       null,
@@ -3218,7 +3301,7 @@ describe("codex account selection order", () => {
       activeCodexAccountPinned: "b",
     });
     updateAccountQuota("a", 10);
-    updateAccountQuota("b", 90);
+    updateAccountQuota("b", 100);
 
     expect(resolveCodexAccountForThreadDetailed(
       null,