My experience using it from cursor has been fairly disappointing

Much better in the codex cli harness

There's one really confusing thing in Codex CLI from my perspective. How do I make it run unsandboxed but still ask me for approvals? I'm fine with it running bare on my machine but I like to approve first before it runs commands. But I only see how I can configure to have both or none. What am I missing?

--help explains this, -s for sandbox and -a for approvals

Thanks! That helped. Really strange though, that the slash commands inside the CLI do not allow for such a detailed configuration. It allows for the sandbox and approvals options but there's only "default" and "just allow everything" while the CLI flags or the config.toml allows for more nuanced options.

Interesting, I can give that a try at some point.

In what way(s), if you can elaborate?

Claude 4.5 or 4.6 just one shots what I ask instead of getting stuck in random tangents.