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by ryanto 3 days ago
Hey looks cool. I tried to run this on a small oss library and here's what happened:

  $ codex-security scan .
  [00:00] Preparing scan
  [00:00] Authentication: stored Codex credentials.
  [00:01] Preparing scan
  [00:42] Running scan
  [00:42] Preflight: worker delegation supported (up to 8 worker slots).
  [41:03] Running scan
  codex-security: This content was flagged for possible cybersecurity risk. If this seems wrong, try rephrasing your request. To get authorized for security work, join the Trusted Access for Cyber program: https://chatgpt.com/cyber
  codex-security: Partial output was kept at /Users/ryan/.codex/state/plugins/codex-security/scans/framework/codex-security-framework-z7eNfr.
Just some feedback, but it ran for over 40 minutes and during that time I had no idea what was happening, thought it was frozen or in a bad state. Also, it ate through 25% of my weekly credits :(
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IMHO, tokens should be refunded if the agent refuses to work. Charging users for a session that produced no final output is ridiculous.
oh i'm not worried about it. they have been so generous with the resets these last few weeks.
I was going to switch to OpenAI and away from Anthropic because of "safety" nonsense like this. Really disappointed to discover it's just gonna be more of the same. Looks like Chinese models are the only ones without any of this safety bullshit.
I've switched to Kimi personally and it has way less guard nonsense like this.
you should give openai a try. ive been really happy with them these last few weeks
Same happened to me. Very disappointing, this should be mentioned before the user even authenticates in the onboarding phase of the product asking the user if they have acquired the whitelisting from OpenAI and want to proceed or not! But running for 35+ minutes plus to give such a response is very disappointing and very awkward! Not to mention the lost weekly tokens!
It halts and refuses to carry on after finding a security risk, which is exactly what it's supposed to do? What's the point of it then?
Same thing happened to me. The partial output did contain some useful signal but I was disappointed to see it didn’t finish.