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Codex Auto-Editing Files Without Permission in VS Code

OpenAI Developer Community April 17, 2026
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Hey @hani3, really appreciate you flagging this, that’s definitely concerning behavior. To help get this properly investigated, we’ll need a bit more detail from your side. The easiest way is through the CLI so it captures the full session context. Can you try reloading your session in the interactive CLI, then run /feedback to upload the session details, and include the thread ID from this post in that report. That combo usually gives enough to see exactly what Codex was doing and why it might’ve edited files without an explicit action. Once you’ve done that, feel free to link it back here too so others can follow along. -Mark G.

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