Codex not honoring yolo

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 21, 2026 by waynchi Closed Jan 25, 2026

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 ./ testing

I 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 ./ testing

I 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_

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