Suppoert symlinked .rules files

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Mar 15, 2026 by KeqiZeng
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.114.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

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)?

Kitty 0.46.0

What issue are you seeing?

The symlinked rules file in rules folder is ignored by rules loader

What steps can reproduce the bug?

echo 'prefix_rule(pattern=["git", "add"], decision="allow")' >> /tmp/demo.rules
ln -sf /tmp/demo.rules ~/.codex/rules/demo.rules

# in a git repo
codex

and then ask the agent to use git add to stage some files. It still ask for the approval even if the demo.rules defined the prefix_rule for git add

What is the expected behavior?

The symlinked rules file should be loaded automatically.

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

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

  • #14572

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

I'm changing this from a bug report to an enhancement request.