The Approval Prompt Is A Design Review
Decide how to handle a Codex approval request without widening access unnecessarily.
The agent wants to cross the sandbox boundary. The approval decision should be scoped, not automatic. Codex asks to install a new package while fixing a date parsing bug. What is the best next move? Pause and ask Codex to explain why the package is necessary, inspect existing helpers and the lockfile, then approve only a narrowly scoped command if the evidence still supports it. Right. This uses the approval pause as a risk review and keeps the agent inside least-privilege reasoning. Approve the package install immediately because Codex probably found the fastest path. Too trusting. The principle violated is…
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