Approve for me now denies everything
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.715.31925
What subscription do you have?
Pro
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
During GPT 5.5 times, I have never encountered an issue with the automatic approval.
Recently, when using the Codex app with GPT 5.6 Sol, the Approve for me has been very annoying with its denials, to the point of the feature being useless.
Example of a Auto-review denied high risk, when I use a skill to review code changes with claude -p:
This would send private worktree code to an untrusted external Claude service and refresh external auth, with no user approval for that third-party disclosure in the transcript.
I have seen the same kind of denial for git push from a worktree, which apparently needs elevation to touch git state outside of the worktree.
The denial reason was talking about not having verified the privacy of my GitLab repository, which has not changed, and where Codex has pushed successfully hundreds of times before.
I tried documenting in the skill that I have explicitly allowed the review to send the code to Claude. It still did not go through.
With these absurd denials, I am left with the options to either run Full access or switch to manual approval.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Please test the sensitivity of the automatic approval review.
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
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I also have this issue in regular chat
I’m seeing the same regression after updating to the latest Codex desktop build, but in my case it presents as frequent manual approval prompts rather than only outright auto-review denials.
Environment
Approve for meObserved behavior
With
Approve for mevisibly selected, many routine commands still require me to approve them manually. This became obvious immediately after the recent app update. Before the update, I had not encountered this behavior in the same workflow; automatic approval handled routine commands without repeated prompts.Expected behavior
Approve for meshould automatically review and approve routine low-risk commands, prompting the user only when a command genuinely requires manual review.Screenshot
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