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Codex safety settings

The sandbox and approval settings for each situation, ready to copy.

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Which Codex settings fit your task?

Pick the situation. You get the sandbox mode, the approval policy and the config to copy, using the setting names from the Codex docs (November 2026).

workspace-write

sandbox_mode

on-request

approval_policy

The docs' lower-risk automation preset: edits inside the workspace, asks before anything else.

# ~/.codex/config.toml
sandbox_mode = "workspace-write"
approval_policy = "on-request"

[sandbox_workspace_write]
network_access = false
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