“Allow once” button is unresponsive in the file edit permission dialog

Open 💬 5 comments Opened Jul 30, 2026 by gudelian11111

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

codex version 26.721.81911

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

What platform is your computer?

macOS 26, Apple Silicon ，M3PRo

What issue are you seeing?

Whenever Codex displays the file edit permission dialog asking, “Allow ChatGPT to edit the following files?”, clicking the “Allow once” button has no effect.

The dialog remains open, the proposed file edits are not applied, and Codex cannot continue the task. There is no visible error message or other response after clicking the button.

The only way to leave this state is to close and restart the Codex App. However, restarting does not resolve the underlying issue. As soon as another file edit permission dialog appears, clicking “Allow once” causes the same problem again.

This makes it impossible to use Codex for tasks that require editing files.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Open the Codex App.
Open a local or remote project.
Ask Codex to perform a task that requires modifying one or more files.
Wait for the dialog asking, “Allow ChatGPT to edit the following files?” to appear.
Click the “Allow once” button.
Observe that nothing happens: the dialog remains open, the files are not modified, and Codex does not continue.
Close and restart the Codex App.
Trigger another task that requires file editing.
Click “Allow once” again.
Observe that the same issue occurs again.

The issue is consistently reproducible.

What is the expected behavior?

Additional information

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5 Comments

brityonge · 27 days ago

I'm seeing the same failure on Codex Desktop for macOS with a remote Linux workspace.

On 2026-07-31, this stranded three separate tasks. In each case:

the file-change approval appeared, but submitting the approval had no effect;
the task remained active / waitingOnApproval;
the latest fileChange item remained inProgress; and
switching tasks or restarting Desktop did not resolve or cancel it.

Two affected tasks originated before a core upgrade. I then reproduced the same deadlock in a newly created task running Codex core 0.146.0-alpha.9.2, so it does not appear limited to stale pre-upgrade tasks.

The same edits completed successfully in a separate task without interactive approvals, suggesting the failure is in the approval lifecycle rather than the patch contents.

Additional diagnostic details are in #36392. I'm closing that report as a duplicate so investigation can remain consolidated here. Private task IDs can be provided directly to OpenAI if helpful.

gudelian11111 · 25 days ago

I encountered this issue again today while using Codex to operate a remote server. This time, even after quitting Codex and restarting it, Codex still could not run properly and remained stuck. Restarting the application did not resolve the problem.

jamesbriant · 23 days ago

I am experiencing the same behaviour working on a remote project. Codex updated to ChatGPT app yesterday: ChatGPT 26.727.51351 on Mac. The "Deny" button also doesn't work incidentally.

dibalokechanda · 21 days ago

I am also experiencing the same behaviour. Neither the accept nor deny button works on a remote project.

adminha · 16 days ago

same here. remote project accept/deny buttons doesn't work (windows 11)