OpenAI’s Roon says Codex has no reverse engineering ban, accidental blocks being fixed

An OpenAI researcher says blocked requests to remove device software were unintended and are being corrected after public criticism OpenAI ’s AI coding tool Codex does not prohibit reverse engineering. That is according to OpenAI researcher Roon, who addressed the issue directly on X. Roon also said that cases where Codex refused to help users remove software from their own devices were accidental, and that those blocks are being fixed. The clarification landed on X on October 26, 2026, at around 00:43 UTC. Roon’s message had two parts. First, Codex has no policy against reverse engineering. Second, the refusals users had run into around stripping software off devices were not intentional, and OpenAI is working to correct them.

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