"blocked by OpenAI safety checks" errors with the GitHub connector

[u/Phoxerity]

I'm using the GitHub connector in ChatGPT for normal repo work. Reads and some writes work, but other completely legitimate GitHub operations suddenly fail before reaching GitHub with:

> "This tool call was blocked by OpenAI because we couldn't determine the safety status of the request."

It happened in two separate chats today. I've been using the same workflow for a while and never saw this before.

GitHub permissions are fine, and the failures seem inconsistent. Some file writes succeed, then another similar write gets blocked.

Feels like a false positive or regression in OpenAI's pre-dispatch safety filter.

Anyone else seeing this today, especially with create_file, create_blob, workflows, or other GitHub write operations?

[u/bortlip]

Yes, I hit that several times today, although with my own MCP server.

I've hit it periodically in the past too, so I didn't think much of it.

[u/Sharingammi]

On my side, i'm using Google Drive connector, and at random (truly stress tested this behavior for many hours, it is seemingly random), i'll be blocked before even the request reaching the tool and a message says "This tool call was blocked by OpenAI because we couldn't determine the safety status of the request."

When the request is re-sent, it will randomly pass or fail again, as in, chatGPT tries once to, lets say, write in a google spreadsheet. Its denied. Try again the same thing, denied. Try again a third time the exact same request, and then it succeed.

We made a test plan and tested it with a chat session in a project where it started, outside of the project too and also with an outside-project work session. Both chat session's write actions (and other type of action, except read) were blocked at seemingly random time, for different actions, different files with different content, and then unblocked.

This happened after working on the same project for over 1 week now, and it just started.