On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files.
What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when:
- Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review being enabled
- The model attempts to override the $HOME env var to define a temporary directory.
- The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead.
This is of course not how we want the system to behave, even when a user operates the model in full-access mode without the safeguards of our sandbox or without using auto review which checks for these kinds of high risk actions and rejects them.
We are taking steps to mitigate this risk including by updating the developer message, guiding more users towards safer permission modes, and adding additional harness safeguards. Even though this happens extremely rarely, we’ll share a detailed post-mortem in the coming days that goes into more details and what we are doing to minimize risks further.
introducing https://t.co/20es64pAqZ
a dictionary for ui things you can see but can't name
made it because i'm primarily a designer, and my biggest resistance was always knowing what things are called when prompting my agents
it learns as people use it: every search teaches the site new words, and the built-in pocket dictionary grows with it
give it a try and let me know what you think
can't find something? dm me and i'll add it
i want this to be the lowest resistance resource you have
you can just build things