# "Save environment" button consistently fails with error "Failed to update environment"

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/save-environment-button-consistently-fails-with-error-failed-to-update-environment/1361889>\
**Category:** Codex\
**Tags:** gpt-5-codex\
**Created:** [October 10, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/save-environment-button-consistently-fails-with-error-failed-to-update-environment/1361889 "2025-10-10T14:36:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlo.wood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@carlo.wood](https://community.openai.com/u/carlo.wood)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/save-environment-button-consistently-fails-with-error-failed-to-update-environment/1361889/1 "2025-10-10T14:36:36Z")

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Once I get this error, no amount of editing the Environment will make it go away.  
I have to delete the whole environment and start over. Please fix this ☹

 ![Screenshot_20251010_163620](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/2/9/9/299019e24b581bd3d25342cd709925ca220185eb.png)

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**Author:** ![carlo.wood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@carlo.wood](https://community.openai.com/u/carlo.wood)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/save-environment-button-consistently-fails-with-error-failed-to-update-environment/1361889/2 "2025-10-10T14:46:38Z")

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Once I get this error, no amount of editing the Environment will make it go away.  
I have to delete the whole environment and start over. Please fix this ☹

Thus, even in this state:

 ![Screenshot_20251010_164329](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/4/5/f/45fce87f64d7f900048a8352f6f06598d29d0252.png)

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**Author:** ![carlo.wood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@carlo.wood](https://community.openai.com/u/carlo.wood)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/save-environment-button-consistently-fails-with-error-failed-to-update-environment/1361889/3 "2025-10-12T12:00:17Z")

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Note: I get into that error state after editing one of the scripts. The problem is not the script contents: I delete the Environment, create a new one with the same name and paste in everything exactly as it was when trying to save failed, and that always succeeds. Something is broken on OpenAI’s end.