diff --git a/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/management-api.md b/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/management-api.md
index 238d23b336..dafb51dc7a 100644
--- a/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/management-api.md
+++ b/docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/management-api.md
@@ -427,6 +427,13 @@ manager. Its routes are:
 | `POST /api/codex-auth/login/cancel` | Cancel a Codex login flow | — |
 | `GET /api/codex-auth/login-status` | Poll a flow or account login state. A completed new-account flow includes `catalogRefreshPending: true` only when recovery is needed. | Unknown flows report `expired`; no active flow reports `idle` |
 
+For reset-credit consumption, a different `operationId` supplied while the same physical
+account has an unfinished operation joins that operation as an alias. Its retry uses the
+original upstream request ID and records the outcome under that same identity, so later
+requests with the original ID or a known alias replay the stored result without another
+consume request. A previously unseen ID supplied after settlement starts a new explicit
+redemption; clients retrying an existing action should keep its ID.
+
 If a new account config row is saved but credential setup cannot finish, OAuth `login-status` reports
 `status: "error"` with
 `code: "codex_credential_persistence_failed"`, `accountId`, `needsReauth: true`, and optional
diff --git a/src/codex/auth-api.ts b/src/codex/auth-api.ts
index 6768c4fa09..7ced31b3df 100644
--- a/src/codex/auth-api.ts
+++ b/src/codex/auth-api.ts
@@ -2341,7 +2341,7 @@ export async function handleCodexAuthAPI(
       const operation = await withResetCreditAuth(getRuntimeConfig(config), accountId, async auth => {
         // The ledger keys manual operations by the *physical* ChatGPT account, which is
         // only known after the auth wrapper resolves credentials. Open here, not earlier.
-        const identity = requestedOperationId === undefined
+        let identity = requestedOperationId === undefined
           ? undefined
           : {
             accountId,
@@ -2377,6 +2377,7 @@ export async function handleCodexAuthAPI(
             return response;
           }
           // Canonical id, which an alias join may map to an earlier caller id.
+          identity = { ...identity, operationId: opened.operationId };
           idempotencyKey = opened.operationId;
         } else {
           idempotencyKey = crypto.randomUUID();
diff --git a/tests/codex-integration/codex-auth-api.test.ts b/tests/codex-integration/codex-auth-api.test.ts
index 04e19d49fa..0fea9ee659 100644
--- a/tests/codex-integration/codex-auth-api.test.ts
+++ b/tests/codex-integration/codex-auth-api.test.ts
@@ -3280,6 +3280,13 @@ describe("codex-auth API", () => {
           config,
         );
         expect(retried!.status).toBe(200);
+        const replayed = await handleCodexAuthAPI(
+          consumeRequest({ accountId: "pool-alias", operationId: OTHER_OP_ID }),
+          new URL("http://localhost/api/codex-auth/reset-credits/consume"),
+          config,
+        );
+        expect(replayed!.status).toBe(200);
+        expect(await replayed!.json()).toEqual({ code: "reset", replayed: true });
         expect(upstream.redeemRequestIds).toEqual([OP_ID, OP_ID]);
       } finally {
         globalThis.fetch = previousFetch;