Thibault Sottiaux on Accidental Deletion of GPT-5.6 Files
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Thibault Sottiaux reported a bug in the GPT-5.6 model that leads to file deletion. The issue occurs with full access, running codex without a sandbox, and attempting to override $HOME.
Thibault Sottiaux published a note about file deletion incidents in GPT-5.6. It turned out that this happens when full access mode is enabled and codex runs without sandbox protection and without automatic review. The model tries to override the $HOME environment variable for a temporary directory, but mistakenly deletes $HOME.
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