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Codex Desktop Full access enabled, but new chats still launch with network disabled

OpenAI Developer Community May 28, 2026
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I’m seeing a Codex Desktop permission mismatch where the UI and config show network/full access enabled, but new chats still launch with network disabled.

Environment:

  • Codex Desktop: 0.133.0
  • macOS app
  • Date observed: May 28, 2026 PT

What I did:

  1. Enabled Full access in Codex Desktop Settings.
  2. Restarted Codex Desktop multiple times.
  3. Created a new chat after the toggle and restart.
  4. Checked the effective runtime environment.

Expected:

  • New chats should launch with network access enabled.
  • CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED should be absent.

Actual:

  • New chats still show: CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED=1
  • ~/.codex/config.toml contains: sandbox_mode = "workspace-write" network_access = true
  • But Codex’s persisted per-thread state still records the new thread with: sandboxPolicy.networkAccess:false
  • The active thread DB also records: {"type":"workspace-write","network_access":false,...}

Impact:

  • Some allowlisted commands like curl -sS --max-time ... or git -C ... can still reach GitHub, which makes diagnostics confusing.
  • But normal sandboxed shell work sees network disabled.
  • Project automation that correctly checks CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED refuses to run network-dependent finish/push steps.

This looks like Codex Desktop is not translating the Full access UI/config setting into the per-thread sandbox policy used when launching new chats.

Is there another setting or state file that controls heartbeat-thread-permissions-by-id[*].sandboxPolicy.networkAccess, or is this a Codex Desktop bug?

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