File search fails in readonly mode

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Oct 13, 2025 by tylerlaprade Closed Jan 10, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.46.0

Which model were you using?

gpt-5-thinking-high

What platform is your computer?

MacOS

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Start in readonly mode and ask it to look at a specific file without giving the exact path

What is the expected behavior?

It should find the file

What do you see instead?

• Ran zsh -lc 'rg "ColumMapperTableHeaderCell"'
  └ failed in sandbox: /opt/homebrew/Library/
    Homebrew/brew.sh: line 60: cannot create
    temp file for here document: Operation not
    permitted
    /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/
    shellenv.sh: line 18: /bin/ps: Operation not
    permitted

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 10 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #4620

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etraut-openai contributor · 7 months ago

Closing old issue.