September 3, 2026 / Daily Edition / 3 stories in this issue
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Before Codex Trusts a Workspace, It Stops Letting the Workspace Choose Its Helpers

A merged Codex change moves automatic pre-trust helper lookups to known system locations, sanitizes plugin-sync Git, and makes diagnostics inspect a workspace-influenced path without running what they find.

Photocopied marker diagram of a workspace PATH card blocked at a trust gate while system locations, sanitized plugin Git, and non-executing diagnostics feed a circled automatic-helper path; a stamp says the evidence is merged main-branch tests, not a release or complete audit.
Diagram Punkbefore trust, a workspace should not get to choose an automatic helper.
repos openai/codex + google-gemini/gemini-cli evidence
6 source signals 2 repos commit 637c322
Evidence: commit 637c322 / September 3, 2026 / Daily Edition
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