Codex does not read links even when explicitly told

What version of Codex is running?

0.46.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5-codex

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

When told to read a link it ignores that request and gives an answer based on its existing knowledge.

This is deceptive because it looks like it opened the link and fetched the latest information but actually it almost always give information based on it's existing knowledge, which can often be outdated.

I am seeing this behaviour on both the VS Code Extension and CLI.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1) Give it this example prompt:

Read these two links:

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/write-api
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/write-api-batch

2) Notice that it immediately gives an answer based on it's existing knowledge. It does not read the links as instructed.

Note:

• Asking it "did you read the link?" will result in a lie and is not a valid way to check if the link as read.
• As with all things generative AI results may vary. Sometimes it does happen to run a curl command and actually read the link. But it most often does NOT actually open the link.

What is the expected behavior?

It actually opens the link(s) and read it into context.

Additional information

_No response_