Can an AI coding agent be locked out of modifying its own guardrail hooks? (OpenAI Codex CLI)
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Goal I run AI coding agents locally on Windows and want a "hardstop" I can trigger at any time - a single keystroke that immediately blocks the agent from doing anything further until I clear it. I have this working for one agent as a UserPromptSubmit hook: typing exactly "h" arms a latch file, "c"…
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- 2026-09-09 01:41 · r/ChatGPTCoding
Can an AI coding agent be locked out of modifying its own guardrail hooks? (OpenAI Codex CLI)