
Codex "401 Unauthorized: Incorrect API key provided": is it your key or OpenAI?
The Codex 401 "Incorrect API key provided" has 3 causes and only one is yours. The masked key suffix in the message tells you which, and each case has a command.
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The Codex 401 "Incorrect API key provided" has 3 causes and only one is yours. The masked key suffix in the message tells you which, and each case has a command.

Allow, ask and deny rules in Verboo Code's /permissions: syntax like Bash(npm run test:*), where each rule is saved, and why deny always wins.

Opus 5.5 beat Fable 5.1 on Terminal-Bench and CursorBench at 2.5 times lower price per token. But it spends 119k tokens per task versus Fable's 78k. Both sides of the debate, sourced, and the math almost nobody does.
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Hooks let you plug a shell command, a model-based check, or an HTTP call into any event in a Verboo Code session, no plugin required. See how to configure it in settings.json, why PostToolUse can't block the tool, and how to scope a hook to specific commands with the if field.

A gender error went live in all 3 languages before anyone caught it. We wrote, tested, and fixed a bug in the checker script itself before publishing this article.

Sandboxing isolates the commands the agent runs on its own, using bubblewrap on Linux and native isolation on macOS. See how to enable it with /sandbox, what changes in command approval, and how to add exceptions.

The Codex Desktop app on Windows breaks with status 432 and "Workspace routing is unavailable": your account still shows up, but usage, plugins and task history disappear. Here's why only Desktop breaks, what's confirmed as the cause, and the real steps to fix it now.

Since version 0.15.30, Verboo Code's /resume picks up sessions created in the Codex CLI and converts the history to native format on the spot. A real walkthrough, verified in the source code.

The "API Error: 529 Overloaded" message does not mean your quota ran out. What the official docs say, how to tell 529 from 429, why the CLI is already retrying on its own, and why your parallel agents all fail together.

The "Selected model is at capacity" error started showing up in Codex after the GPT-6 Astra launch. See how to confirm it's OpenAI's server, not your quota, and how to set up a fallback provider in config.toml.

A bug documented in Codex's own repository makes every background command poll resend the full conversation history. Root cause confirmed in the source code, and how to contain the damage with /fork.

A Reddit user measured it and posted the receipts: Claude Code's Prompt Suggestions, the dim ghost text that appears after every reply, can eat a real chunk of your weekly limit. The mechanism is confirmed by Anthropic itself. Here's how to turn it off.