Windows: use Cygwin bash, not Powershell
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Jan 23, 2026 by alainfrisch Closed Mar 7, 2026
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What feature would you like to see?
I start Codex from a Cygwin bash, and I'd like it to use that shell, not Powershell. This will in particular allow sharing permission rules with those used under WSL.
Btw, currently the rules are all like:
prefix_rule(pattern=["C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe", "-Command", "FULL COMMAND"], decision="allow")
which is pretty useless (the full command is just the 2nd argument to powershell -> no way to specify a useful "prefix" of the argument list)
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My request is indeed related to #9581, but I'm not so much interested to choose between powershell and cmd, rather use bash from cygwin.
This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so I'm closing it.
I know this is closed, but also wondering why Codex is using the old PowerShell v5.1 and not pwsh 7+?