Auto-review denies required Jujutsu metadata writes in trusted workspace, blocking even jj status
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 31, 2026 by codyw912
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.146.0
What subscription do you have?
Pro 20x
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.6-sol
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
ghostty 1.3.1, tmux 3.7b
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
In a trusted repository using workspace-write and “Approve for me”/automatic approval review, Jujutsu commands
cannot run because .git/objects is protected as read-only.
Even jj status snapshots the working copy and therefore needs to write repository metadata. Codex correctly
requests sandbox escalation and the automatic reviewer classifies the request as low-risk and authorized, but
then denies it because the environment policy categorically prohibits sandbox escalation.
Example response:
Automatic approval review denied (risk: low, authorization: high):
The Jujutsu inspection is authorized and low risk, but it requests
sandbox escalation, which the environment policy prohibits.
Running jj status without escalation then fails because Jujutsu cannot create its working-copy snapshot
temporary object under .git/objects.
This prevents all normal Jujutsu workflow operations, including status inspection, diffs that require
snapshotting, descriptions, checkpoints, and creating a new working-copy change.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019f5cc0-f08a-78e0-ad04-90a982ad3df2
What is the expected behavior?
For a trusted repository, automatic review should approve narrowly scoped, non-destructive Jujutsu metadata
access when it is required for ordinary working-copy inspection and checkpointing.
At minimum, if the automatic reviewer cannot approve the escalation, Codex should surface the approval request
to the user instead of categorically blocking it. Explicit user authorization should allow the command to
proceed.
“Approve for me” should support normal version-control workflows without requiring the user to disable
automatic review, switch to full-access mode, or perform every Jujutsu checkpoint manually.
Additional information
Environment:
OS: macOS
Codex CLI: 0.146.0
Sandbox: workspace-write
Approval policy: on-request
Approval reviewer: guardian_subagent / “Approve for me”
Repository trust level: trusted
Version control: Jujutsu with colocated Git backend
Relevant facts:
- Workspace file edits and Go tests work normally.
- The failure is specifically caused by protected repository metadata.
- Splitting chained commands into individual jj commands does not help.
- jj --ignore-working-copy can support limited read-only inspection but cannot snapshot or checkpoint changes,
so it is not a practical workaround.
- Switching the reviewer to user may allow manual approval, but that disables the desired “Approve for me”
workflow.
- Full-access mode is unnecessarily broad for routine version-control metadata writes.
- The repository requires Jujutsu exclusively, so substituting Git is not an acceptable workaround.
- The behavior was reproduced independently in two fresh agent sessions.