already granted full access before，but why now the permissions suddenly changed to Custom (workspace-write, on-request)

Open 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 8, 2026 by willkan

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

v0.111.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.4

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

iterm2

What issue are you seeing?

already granted full access before，but why now the permissions suddenly show Custom (workspace-write, on-request)

╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ >_ OpenAI Codex (v0.111.0) │
│ │
│ Visit https://chatgpt.com/codex/settings/usage for up-to-date │
│ information on rate limits and credits │
│ │
│ Model: gpt-5.4 (reasoning xhigh, summaries auto) │
│ Permissions: Custom (workspace-write, on-request) │
│ Agents.md: <none> │
│ Collaboration mode: Default │
│ │
│ Context window: 82% left (182K used / 950K) │
│ 5h limit: [█████████████████░░░] 85% left (resets 14:21) │
│ Weekly limit: [███████████████████░] 96% left │
│ (resets 09:21 on 15 Mar) │
│ GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark limit: │
│ 5h limit: [████████████████████] 100% left (resets 18:43) │
│ Weekly limit: [████████████████████] 100% left │
│ (resets 13:43 on 15 Mar) │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019cc312-a321-7110-b504-8256497af488
Another Uploaded thread: 019cc312-a321-7110-b504-8256497af488

What is the expected behavior?

keep the permission as [full access] which I already granted before

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

#12090

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

When you create a new thread, it uses the default permissions that you've specified in your config file. You can override the default temporarily using the /permissions slash command, but that selection does not overwrite the default saved back to your config file.

You mentioned that the permissions "suddenly changed". Can you say more about when that occurred? Was it after you created a new thread?

willkan · 5 months ago

When you create a new thread, it uses the default permissions that you've specified in your config file. You can override the default temporarily using the /permissions slash command, but that selection does not overwrite the default saved back to your config file. You mentioned that the permissions "suddenly changed". Can you say more about when that occurred? Was it after you created a new thread?

@etraut-openai I could always find that when the new agent is created the permision will change to custom. I think that's what u mentioned above