Codex not honoring yolo
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 21, 2026 by waynchi Closed Jan 25, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (swordfish444, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
0.87.0
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.1-codex-max
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 23.4.0 arm64 arm
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
wezterm
What issue are you seeing?
I run:
codex exec --yolo -s workspace-write -C ./ testingI get
Not inside a trusted directory and --skip-git-repo-check was not specified.Same situation occurs with `--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox"
Past issues:
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/9144
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/7522
What steps can reproduce the bug?
I run:
codex exec --yolo -s workspace-write -C ./ testingI get
Not inside a trusted directory and --skip-git-repo-check was not specified.Same situation occurs with `--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox"
Past issues:
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/9144
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/7522
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
2 Comments
@etraut-openai This looks like it’s already fixed by #9590 (merged 2026-01-23): “skip git repo check when --yolo flag is used” (and it closed #7522).
Suggestion: mark #9579 as duplicate/resolved and ask the reporter to upgrade to a release that includes #9590.
@waynchi, as @swordfish444 notes above, I think the latest version of Codex addresses this issue. I'm going to close. Please give it a try. If you're still seeing a problem, please use the
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