Running Codex safely at OpenAI
OpenAI, Friday, May 8th, 2026
As AI systems become more capable, they increasingly act on behalf of users. Coding agents can autonomously review repositories, run commands, and interact with development tools. These are tasks that previously required direct human execution.
With Codex, we've designed these capabilities alongside the controls organizations need for safe deployment. Security teams need ways to govern how agents operate: what they can access, when human approval is required, which systems they can interact with, and what telemetry exists to explain their behavior.