Equation 54 · OpenAI Codex as a Software-Engineering System: Models, Harnesses, and Evidence
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Codex can propose and test a patch; an organization decides what counts as a requirement, who may accept risk, where secrets live, which logs are retained, and when software ships. Those decisions are not implementation debris around the agent. They are part of , the authority layer.
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