I have to approve every single operation in VS Code extension

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Oct 1, 2025 by kkowalczyk819 Closed Oct 6, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (gpeal, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.4.15

Which model were you using?

gpt-5-codex medium

What platform is your computer?

_No response_

What steps can reproduce the bug?

When installed Codex 0.4.15 VS Code plugin it requires me to accept every single PowerShell command that he executes. My settings are Local/Agent/gpt-5-codex medium. I can't (and don't want to) switch to full access, but from my understanding Codex should be able to run commands on my current repo without asking me to approve every single of it. Is this intended or is it a bug?

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

What do you see instead?

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Additional information

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3 Comments

alisufyan-ai-ml · 11 months ago

Try asking for all the permissions that you should give to codex

it will tell you to run few Powershell commands in Administrator

kkowalczyk819 · 11 months ago

Try asking for all the permissions that you should give to codex it will tell you to run few Powershell commands in Administrator

thanks for tip, sadly no luck - I've asked many times and in many ways for all permissions as you advised, it shows only some settings to set which helps nothing

model = "gpt-5"
model_reasoning_effort = "high"
approval_policy = "never"
sandbox_mode = "workspace-write"
network_access = "restricted"
cwd = "my repo path"
writable_roots = ["my repo path"]

gpeal contributor · 10 months ago

Duplicate of #2860