Codex is not able to write to repo root .agents directory

What issue are you seeing?

I've moved all my agent and skill files under my repo root directory at $REPO_ROOT/.agents/ as recommended by https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills.

Now I can't ask Codex to edit those files. It's stuck and spins in circle. Must have something to do with permissions on . directories.

It starts working when I set the sandbox_mode = "danger-full-access" but that is not desirable.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Relevant config.toml properties

approval_policy = "never"
sandbox_mode = "workspace-write"

[sandbox_workspace_write]
network_access = true

[shell_environment_policy]
inherit = "all"
ignore_default_excludes = false

What is the expected behavior?

Codex should be able to edit my skills.

Additional information

• macOS Tahoe 26.2
• codex --version : codex-cli 0.98.0