Letting Codex Agents Commit: Making .git Writable in the workspace-write Sandbox
Codex CLI's workspace-write sandbox lets the agent edit anything in your repo -- except commit. Every git commit dies with:
Codex CLI's workspace-write sandbox lets the agent edit anything in your repo -- except commit. Every git commit dies with:
Update (July 2026): as of Codex 0.144.4, this technique no longer works -- the model_context_window override is now ignored, and context ceilings are enforced server-side. See the full update at the end of this post.
Handy (CJ Pais's Tauri 2.x speech-to-text desktop app, v0.8.3 Linux AppImage) is the chosen dictation tool. The required workflow:
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