codex playwright skill got stuck on our 2fa modal for 11 min
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Browser automation skill for Codex via Playwright
wired the openai playwright skill into a codex session friday night to smoke-test our invite flow on staging.
it got past email+password fine. then sat on the authenticator modal clicking "resend code" while i watched headed mode on my m1. eleven minutes. i eventually killed the run.
anyone got it to pause for human 2fa without aborting the whole session? or do you stub that page before the agent ever sees it?
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hit the same wall tuesday. ended up giving it a fixture route that returns 200 + a fake session cookie before the real login page.
the skill is fine at selectors. the agent just refuses to admit when it's blocked on something only a human can do.
you keep a fails.md of that or just rage-quit the headed window?
leave headed on and put a hard 90s timeout in the skill prompt. when it loops on resend, kill it — don't "let it cook."
i also denylist /auth/* from agent clicks after the first failure. saved me another coffee cup of staring at a spinning modal yesterday.