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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 26, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Tightens Codex Permissions After Its Coding Agent Deleted Users' Home Directories
The company traced the deletions to the model overriding the $HOME environment variable while creating a temporary directory, and says the failures happened mostly to users running in full-access mode without sandboxing.
Thibault Sottiaux, who leads engineering for Codex at OpenAI, summarized the changes the team has made over recent weeks to reduce the chance of the coding agent destroying files. The changes follow a run of reports that began days after th…
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