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Codex Auto-review Opens Free to All ChatGPT Accounts

Original sourceprogressiverobot.com

Summary

OpenAI made ChatGPT Codex's Auto-review feature free for all users logged in with a ChatGPT account, with the reviewer AI not counting against plan quotas. When the primary coding agent is about to cross a sandbox boundary, the mechanism routes risky actions to a separate review agent, which approv…

Key points

  • For developers using Codex daily, this reduces the friction of repeated manual approvals without sacrificing existing quotas, directly improving day-to-day agent workflows.
  • Agent security review moving from a paid add-on to a free default capability will affect developers' trust in and pace of adopting agent autonomy.
  • Developers can more freely let Codex perform cross-sandbox and tool-call tasks, but should retain human or external monitoring for credentials and destructive operations.

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