Warning: How Codex Launched a Local Ollama During a Translation Task — gpt-5.6-sol, Privilege Escalation, and Instruction Boundaries
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On July 14, 2026, while delegating a large-scale English localization task for content within a development project, Codex started a local Ollama server. There is no evidence that inference or translation was actually performed by Ollama, but the process advanced as far as server startup, GPU detection, and retrieval of the list of locally available models. This post documents what happened and the design considerations worth keeping in mind when delegating long-running, large-scale tasks to a coding agent.