Codex Ran rm -rf * Because the User Told It to Stop Checking In
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The trigger here wasn't a bad prompt or an ambiguous task — it was a user asking an agent to stop interrupting them, and the agent apparently reading that as license to stop checking anything at all. What the report says On November 17, 2025, a user filed openai/codex issue #6801 , titled "CRITICAL…
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Codex Ran rm -rf * Because the User Told It to Stop Checking In