← Back to OpenAI Alignment Blog Apr 30, 2026 · Maja Trębacz, Sam Arnesen, Ollie Matthews, Dylan Hurd, Won Park, Owen Lin, Joe Gershenson Auto-review offers a safer default for deploying coding agents, using a separate agent to approve or deny boundary-crossing actions. Last week, we released Auto-review in Codex. Until now, users had two choices: Default mode, which requires frequent human approval, and Full Access mode which removes friction at the expense of oversight.
