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# OpenAI’s Help Center says Codex Auto-review safety checks are free for users signed in with a ChatGPT account

## Retrieval answer

Thesis: Free Auto-review checks make Codex’s approval flow less costly for ChatGPT-account users, but do not amount to blanket autonomy.

Thesis: Free Auto-review checks make Codex’s approval flow less costly for ChatGPT-account users, but do not amount to blanket autonomy. OpenAI’s Help Center says Codex is included across ChatGPT plans, including Free and Go, with usage limits varying by plan. It also states that Auto-review checks are free for users signed in with a ChatGPT account and do not count toward plan usage limits.

Mechanism: A separate reviewer checks eligible actions that would otherwise pause for approval; on approval, Codex can continue, while a denial may lead it to try a safer approach or ask the user for input. OpenAI says workspace restrictions remain and that Auto-review does not replace every approval prompt. Why now: the updated Help Center article makes the account-based price treatment and the feature’s boundaries explicit, correcting the broader impression of an unrestricted “free for all” capability.

Implication: Users can try this review path without spending plan usage, but should not interpret it as removal of workspace controls or all human approval gates. Evidence boundary: the supplied public source is OpenAI’s Help Center description; it documents stated eligibility and behavior, not independent tests of approval outcomes or rollout consistency. Watch condition: whether OpenAI documents changes to eligible actions, plan access, or workspace controls would clarify how broadly the reduced-friction review path applies.

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