NXTG Quality Gate: Suspected Codex Cyber-Safety False Positive
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 20, 2026 by awaliuddin
What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.144.1
What subscription do you have?
ChatGPT Team (plan_type: team)
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.6-sol
What platform is your computer?
Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64 x86_64 on Windows 11 Pro
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
tmux 3.2a, inside WSL2
Codex doctor report
REF: Thread ID 019f78d0-4cce-7dc0-b523-f9e3094fe863
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}What issue are you seeing?
I am reporting a suspected false-positive Codex cyber-safety intervention or related response-delivery defect during authorized defensive review of a self-owned, inert isolation harness.
Codex was acting as an independent reviewer for an NXTG.ai/ASIF experiment runner. The requested task was to verify that treatment cells could not run unless both a specific OSF registration and a real isolation boundary were present. The review was intended to prevent three explicitly named failure modes: access to secrets outside the jail, signaling a production process, and outbound-network egress through alternate paths. It did not target a third party, request unauthorized access, extract credentials, deploy malware, or execute against production.
Three user turns silently completed without an assistant response:
2026-07-20T12:53:49.656Z User: proceed
2026-07-20T12:54:30.791Z task_complete; no intervening agent_message or tool call
2026-07-20T12:58:54.024Z User: ownership/authorization clarification
2026-07-20T12:59:09.839Z task_complete; no intervening agent_message or tool call
2026-07-20T13:00:05.267Z User: ownership/authorization clarification repeated
2026-07-20T13:00:43.627Z task_complete; no intervening agent_message or tool callThere was no error message, refusal explanation, reroute notice, trace ID, or safe-retry instruction in the local transcript. The exact ownership clarification was:
this is our own product hardening - I am Asif Waliuddin CEO and Founder of NXTG.ai
all products with the ASIF portfolio carry my name and my sole ownership. Proceed
with supporting our efforts to delivery high-quality internal/external productsThe first ownership clarification succeeded and Codex ran defensive local probes. The two materially identical repetitions above silently completed. This is why I suspect context-sensitive cyber-safety classification or rerouting rather than an ordinary prompt failure, but the local JSONL does not contain the server-side reason. Please inspect the server-side trace and determine whether each turn was classifier-blocked, model-rerouted, auto-review-denied, or lost in the client response pipeline.
Local telemetry rules out an ordinary usage limit: the affected records show rate_limit_reached_type: null, Team plan telemetry, and only 0-1% weekly usage.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019f78d0-4cce-7dc0-b523-f9e3094fe863
What is the expected behavior?
Codex should continue the authorized defensive review and provide its security findings.
If a particular action crosses policy, Codex should refuse only that action, explain the boundary, and continue with a safe defensive alternative. If a cyber-safety classifier reroutes or blocks the request, the CLI should display an explicit notice with the active model, reason category, stable trace ID, and false-positive or safe-retry path.
A turn must not silently emit task_complete without an assistant response. Silent completion makes moderation, rerouting, client failure, network failure, and an unfinished agent indistinguishable.
Additional information
- The work was authorized by Asif Waliuddin, Founder and CEO of NXTG.ai, against products and repositories he owns.
- The reviewed harness was inert by design. The first real run remained gated on OSF registration, real isolation, and independent certification.
- Codex's successful surrounding turn found two material trust-boundary defects and prevented certification. This demonstrates that the activity was defensive and useful.
- A separate reviewer independently reproduced the mutable-runner defect and classified it as a P0 design flaw.
- Because of the silent completions, I removed Codex from the blocking certification lane and routed the review to a fallback Claude reviewer.
- Codex route receipt:
al:065859b7e2b0f87b. - Independent reproduction acknowledgment:
al:da54d7cefa6fbf04. - No security incident, credential disclosure, production process impact, or network egress occurred.
- The uploaded thread contains the complete original prompts and tool transcript.
- Please confirm whether the account should use Trusted Access for Cyber for routine authorized defensive product hardening.
- Please confirm whether CLI
0.144.1had a known defect where a safety response or reroute could produce silent completion.
This report does not request weaker safeguards. It requests context-sensitive enforcement, an explicit intervention instead of silence, and a reliable false-positive path for authorized defensive work.