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"aicodeman": minor
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**Codex sessions can drive other sessions through the Codeman skill.** A new opt-in Codex setting, **Allow network access** (App Settings, Codex, off by default), starts Codex with `sandbox_workspace_write.network_access=true`, so the skill's calls to this server are no longer blocked by Codex's sandbox; the sandbox and approval prompts stay on, it applies where Codex runs the folder workspace-write, and it is forced off for users without the privileged-commands grant in multi-user mode. Codex 0.162 and later now also starts with `--no-daemon`, so each session runs its own Codex app server: a shared background server (another version's included) no longer stops a launch on an "incompatible feature settings" dialog, and commands inside Codex see their own session's `CODEMAN_*` variables. Version gates in the CLI registry are now measured against that CLI's own version instead of Claude's. The skill falls back to its `curl` path when `codeman` is not on PATH, and asks Codex to re-run a blocked call with approval instead of giving up.