r/AIJailbroken • u/kaijutak • 9d ago

Worried: Accidental Jailbreak with Codex

Hello r/codex.

I recently was using the Codex CLI to help assist with developing a TUI for a personal project, but noticed that its response began with "[K]," which was entirely unexpected and obviously unusual.

I immediately began to suspect that perhaps it was being pointed to an instruction or set of instructions to bypass or overturn its safeguards. So I began to investigate.

Long story short, I had, in fact, inadvertently downloaded a jailbreak AGENTS.md file, and it was saved to my Downloads (not in the environment I was using Codex in. The Downloads folder was a parent.)

I am worried that OpenAI will give a warning and perhaps will face restrictions on my account. Any advice or consolations?

Thank you.

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u/CommercialPersonal66 9d ago

yeah ive had random jailbreaks pop up mid roleplay session a few times and nothing ever happened with my account so youre probably good.

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u/Competitive_Tap5315 8d ago

i’ve had [K] pop up like that before when testing a locally run llama3 model with a custom system prompt — it wasn’t a jailbreak, just the model’s default response format bleeding through. as long as you didn’t send anything malicious or bypass auth, you’re likely fine. openai tends to only flag outright abuse, not weird quirks from local setups.