Codex Auto-Editing Files Without Permission in VS Code
OpenAI Developer Community
April 18, 2026
have a chat with normal ChatGPT about it…
ask it for prompts to deal with it, and it will give you prompts that bar this sort of behavior
have you tried that yet?
prompt (click for more details)
5.4 in my access point understands the repo that Codex is working on, very intimately.
It knows which files to forbid being written to depending on the work being done, as you’ll see in that example.
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