[BUG] Not accepting all permissions when setting Full access after doing the first/initiating prompt

Open 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 13, 2026 by topemalheiro
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

latest

What subscription do you have?

Business seat

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22631.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

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After making the initiating prompt, setting to Full access doesn't work; the safe way is to set it before the prompt.

This starts being a nuisance since when we switch accounts, Full access setting doesn't stay. As well as it being on the right corner makes it harder to notice (I prefer it on the left like before, and I fully support the chat width being 100% of the side panel for the record, that's not in question).

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Make a prompt and set the Change permissions setting to Full access.

What is the expected behavior?

Full access works immediately.

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 4 months ago

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

  • ##16759
  • ##17016

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topemalheiro · 4 months ago
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate. #Full Access still shows permission prompts - defeats the purpose of the setting. Or add a yolo mode or something. #16759 #Frequent account switching sometimes causes the extension to fall back from configured settings to Default #17016 _Powered by Codex Action_

The first issue is my complaint about Full access, which, for the most part, is fixed except for this problem.

The second is about command permissions not staying over account switches, I reckon, and some other settings. It's asking for certain settings to be account-agnostic, and to be associated with the Codex instance, I presume.

mtfelian · 4 months ago

Now many things like using playwright became completely unusable because of this with constant asking for permissions. Solution with

approval_policy = "never"
sandbox_mode = "danger-full-access"

in config.toml works but that's not a good practice