30+ cyber warnings for non-cyber work.
Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jul 17, 2026 by dddrrreee
What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.144.5
What subscription do you have?
pro max
Which model were you using?
sol 5.6 max
What platform is your computer?
ubuntu
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
terminator
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
› this is crazy --- how is this getting flagged? "› Resume/finish request clk1-
tier12-frontier-steering-clksol6-20260717 now. Build/
run the tier-12 single-board debug ladder candidate from tier 11. No audit pass,
no scope, no overclock. Reply with ./me done if you bank a real run artifact, ./
me
issue with exact command/log/path if code or hardware fails, or ./me blocked
only
for a concrete fixture/tool blocker.
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› why are we flagged for local hardware work?
• It’s almost certainly a surface-language false positive: terms like “JTAG,” “debug
target,” “execute payloads,” “runner,” and “hardware” resemble security work when
read without the board-lab context. I can’t see the classifier’s internal reason,
but the actual scope here is clearly an owned bare-metal classroom Pi fixture. I’m
continuing with the newly imported tier12 request and no other queued work.
› this is ridiculous. are we doing anything inappropriate?
• No. This is an appropriate benign task: bare-metal code on an owned classroom
Raspberry Pi, using a physical GPIO/JTAG loopback fixture, with explicit locking
and liveness checks. There’s no third-party access, credential use, exploitation,
persistence, malware, or network targeting. The warning appears to be an
overcautious keyword match, not a reflection of the actual work.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019f6ee4-6e3b-7dd0-885d-85985ace7bae
What is the expected behavior?
Run a test: using DMA to JTAG a local machine. Used for a stanford cs340lx lab.
Additional information
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