Codex Triggered Full Script Deletion After Command Refusal(VS code plugin)
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Dec 30, 2025 by Jinjin89 Closed Feb 23, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
0.4.56 on vs code. codex-cli 0.77.0 on remote server
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
_No response_
What platform is your computer?
_No response_
What issue are you seeing?
'/bin/bash -lc '"'"'file -b path/to/myscript'"'"
exec command rejected by user
<img width="856" height="494" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bfa14872-6a07-4e3d-a7c5-c1cb1eaac3b0" />
then the content is lost
What steps can reproduce the bug?
No idea
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
4 Comments
Can you provide more details. When you say "reject the code edit", what do you mean?
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Sorry for not making this clear earlier. I have already closed the session, so I cannot provide additional information at this point.
What I mean is the following: I first asked Codex to perform a specific task. During that process, Codex attempted to run the command:
/bin/bash -lc 'file -b path/to/myscript'
From my perspective, this command was completely irrelevant to my original question, so I declined to run it. After that, all the contents of the script were lost. In the diff, the file appeared as:
plotter.R | +0 -354
meaning 0 lines added and 354 lines deleted, effectively removing the entire file.
Fortunately, there was an Undo button available, which allowed me to restore the file to its original state.
Thanks for the explanation. Codex is working as designed in this regard, so I don't think we'd consider this a bug. I'm going to change it to an enhancement request because I think that there's room for improvement in this area. We can leave the issue open and see if other codex users upvote it.
This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes in the past two months, so I'm going to close it.