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Codex day two: free Auto-review targets permission requests
Tibo announced on October 6 that Auto-review is free for users signed in through ChatGPT and does not consume their plan allowance. That extends his 28-day improvement pledge; universal availability and billing remain his announcement, rather than an account-by-account finding.
The feature reviews eligible requests to cross the coding agent’s sandbox boundary. A separate agent examines the proposed action and its relationship to the user’s task. A rejected request can lead to a safer alternative or human confirmation. This is permission review, with sandbox limits retained; it is not a review of every code change.
OpenAI described the mechanism in an April 30 research post, so the October 6 change concerns access and charging. Tibo’s clarified path is Settings → General → Permissions → Auto-review. Official documentation says it depends on an approval boundary; full-access or never-ask configurations do not provide the same review requests.
Fewer approval interruptions could ease decision fatigue. Incorrect approvals and refusals still matter, and automated review provides no blanket safety guarantee. We have not tested billing or measured its practical error rate.
Sources and further reading
- Original X post
- Scope and approval boundaries
- April research background
- The 28-day pledge
- Clarified settings path
Edited report · Sources and limitations in the text
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