How to turn off the annoying prompts for approval in Codex CLI / VS Code

[bartczernicki]

VSCode needs to have the config file turned on. So, the reason you are not seeing it work is because you need to explicitly tell VSCode to use the config.toml file. It is confusing because setting the model and reasoning effort updates the config.toml file, but the other parameters don’t take unless you select the option below.