Detailed work on binary file formats is unnecessarily flagged as security-adjacent or malevolent

What version of Codex CLI is running?

Latest

What subscription do you have?

Pro or Max

Which model were you using?

Astra High

What platform is your computer?

NixOS

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Blink on iOS, herdr multiplexer

Codex doctor report

I’m actually on an iPad and my SSH client is making it difficult to copy output so I will attach this to the resulting report when I can

What issue are you seeing?

I’m doing low level work on validating various binary file formats (see the project pmarreck/validate) and I keep getting flagged when I am not doing anything malevolent, which is frustrating

What steps can reproduce the bug?

UpLoaded7.20thread:7.2001a077be-5a17-7da1-8aa5-5597322f6f21

What is the expected behavior?

The expected behavior is continued assistance on my work

Additional information

I’m not an official cybersecurity researcher in any capacity, but file format validation is perhaps uniquely security-adjacent since malformed inputs are often a feature in breaches; it would be nice if this type of work was recognized for the value it is, and not the threat it can pose.

No source file, test, or complete reproduction is identified; the issue only describes assistance being blocked during binary-format validation. Start by reviewing the attached report or thread and the relevant safety-classification behavior, then define a reproducible validation scenario and an expected result before implementation.