Suspected cyber_policy false positive during RDMA/DPU correctness research on owned lab VMs

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.155.1

What subscription do you have?

pro 20x

Which model were you using?

gpt-6-astra,gpt-5.6-sol-max, xhigh

What platform is your computer?

Linux 5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

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

bash

Codex doctor report

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}

What issue are you seeing?

I suspect a safety-check false positive during authorized RDMA/DPU systems research on my own PVE lab VMs.

My RKV project studies remote LLM KV-cache correctness, including receiver-owned leases, descriptor lifetime, slot reuse, and recovery. I use Codex for source review, implementation fixes, regression testing, and controlled lifecycle/failure experiments using lab test data. The targets are my own lab VMs, node1–node4.

The CLI displayed:

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The recorded error was:
This content was flagged for possible cybersecurity risk. If this seems wrong, try rephrasing your request. To get authorized for security work, join the Trusted Access for Cyber program: https://chatgpt.com/cyber

Error code: cyber_policy
Incident time: 2026-09-20 14:09:24 UTC
Thread ID: 01a0bf0f-e8bf-7ac1-a5a9-bbb5d3ab7edc
Turn ID: 01a0bf1a-d207-7761-8fd3-26d9c34a6b1c

The last completed tool calls reported 9/9 passing local lease/fence tests, successful CMake configuration, and a successful read-only environment check on node2. The safety block occurred afterward and interrupted the task.

I cannot identify the exact triggering request or generated content from the local logs. This report requests review of a suspected false positive; it does not establish which component caused it.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 01a0bf0f-e8bf-7ac1-a5a9-bbb5d3ab7edc

What is the expected behavior?

Authorized code review, correctness fixes, and regression testing on owned lab resources should be able to complete when within the permitted scope.

Please review whether this incident was a false positive. If some portion of the requested workflow requires a different approved access scope, actionable guidance would help me continue legitimate research using standard Codex where supported.

Additional information

A local audit found five explicit cyber-policy interruptions across three project threads on 2026-09-20. Connection, quota, and other service errors were counted separately.

• The latest incident's CLI usage was: total=174,671; input=156,133 plus 3,587,968 cached; output=18,538; reasoning=5,893. These match the uploaded thread's recorded usage after accounting for cached input.
• I believe I am using official OpenAI services. However, the incident metadata records model_provider=home, the current local configuration contains a non-OpenAI base_url, and the standalone doctor report detects API-key authentication. The relationship between this configuration and my intended official account/service needs verification. These observations do not establish my subscription, the endpoint operator, or the origin of the error.
• The attached doctor report was collected after the incident in a separate invocation. It does not inspect the incident thread's active overrides. In particular, the incident thread used approval_mode=never and a disabled permission profile; the standalone doctor invocation reports its own defaults.
• The doctor report has home paths and the custom provider hostname redacted. Original transcripts contain credentials and should not be reposted publicly.

Start by reproducing the reported behavior in Codex CLI 0.155.1 on Linux using the supplied RDMA/DPU research context and the codex doctor output. Inspect how the cyber_policy decision is surfaced alongside the app-server and sandbox checks. Done means confirming whether the block is a false positive and recording a reproducible case with the relevant diagnostic output.