fix(sandbox): classify git push as network access

[PierrunoYT]

Summary

• classify git push and remote git archive invocations as network-sensitive with shared, positional Git option parsing
• fail closed for reviewed shell function, CMD, PowerShell, env -S, shell-launcher, BusyBox, and strace forms while avoiding false prompts for non-executing text and local operands
• exercise the existing turn-scoped network grant path with an integration regression proving an approved git push receives the temporary network overlay, including the gitlawb:// transport

Fixes #703.

Validation

• make fmt-check
• go vet ./...
• go test ./...
• go test -race ./internal/sandbox ./internal/agent
• go test ./internal/agent -run '^TestRunApprovedGitPushPromptAppliesTurnNetworkGrant$' -count=1
• go run ./cmd/zero-release build
• go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke
• make lint-static (0 issues)
• make vulncheck (No vulnerabilities found.)
• git diff HEAD --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Expanded network activity detection across Git, shell launchers, PowerShell, CMD, wrappers, and command interpreters.
  • Added support for recognizing additional Git network operations, including send-pack and remote archives.
  • Improved handling of quoted, nested, and dynamically constructed commands.

• Bug Fixes

  • Network-blocking decisions are now more conservative when command intent cannot be resolved.
  • Improved protection against deeply nested or obfuscated commands.
  • Reduced false positives for local Git, shell, and PowerShell commands.

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Walkthrough

The sandbox now resolves network activity across parsed and unparseable commands. It handles Git options, shell and Windows launchers, wrappers, dynamic sources, encoded PowerShell payloads, and bounded recursion. Approval coverage now verifies the git push network overlay.

Changes

Sandbox network classification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
AST command resolution and launcher handling internal/sandbox/analyzer.go, internal/sandbox/safe_command.go, internal/sandbox/analyzer_test.go, internal/sandbox/combined_shell_options_test.go, internal/sandbox/safe_command_test.go, internal/tools/bash_tool_test.go	AST analysis resolves nested shell, CMD, PowerShell, env -S, BusyBox, and strace commands. It applies bounded recursion and preserves unresolved network-sensitive results.
Fallback risk resolution and fail-closed parsing internal/sandbox/risk.go, internal/sandbox/risk_hardening_test.go, internal/sandbox/engine_test.go	Fallback analysis uses recursive tokenization instead of a broad regex. It classifies Git and launcher forms while excluding local commands and retaining network gating for unresolved sources.
Git approval parsing and execution coverage internal/agent/command_prefix.go, internal/agent/command_prefix_test.go, internal/agent/loop_test.go	Agent Git parsing shares sandbox option classifiers. The approval regression test verifies the temporary network grant during git push execution and its removal afterward.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to d4066

The change can miss approval prompts for network-capable commands in valid CMD syntax and for Git commands whose arguments are determined dynamically, allowing network access to proceed without authorization. These high-impact sandbox enforcement gaps must be fixed before merging.

Suggested reviewers: gnanam1990, jatmn, vasanthdev2004

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the sandbox command analyzer/risk classifier to treat git push as network-sensitive, with added tests to ensure the AST-based analyzer flags it even when the command doesn’t contain an obvious URL.

Changes:

• Extend commandUsesNetwork to classify git push as network access.
• Add analyzer coverage for git push (and a non-network git commit) in AnalyzeCommand tests.
• Add a risk-classifier hardening test asserting git push is flagged as critical+network when regex-based detection would miss it.

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File	Description
internal/sandbox/analyzer.go	Expands git subcommand network detection to include push.
internal/sandbox/analyzer_test.go	Adds AnalyzeCommand test cases for git push and a local-only git commit.
internal/sandbox/risk_hardening_test.go	Adds a hardening test to ensure AST-based classification flags git push as network.

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internal/sandbox/risk_hardening_test.go (1)

297-309: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Prefer t.Errorf over t.Fatalf in loops.

Using t.Fatalf inside a loop will immediately abort the test on the first failure, which prevents the remaining test cases from executing. Replacing it with t.Errorf allows all cases to be evaluated even if one fails.

♻️ Proposed refactor

 	for _, command := range []string{
 		`curl https://example.com && "unterminated`,
 		`git fetch origin && "unterminated`,
 		`git pull origin main && "unterminated`,
 		`git push gitlawb://example.com/repo.git main && "unterminated`,
 	} {
 		risk := classifyCommand(command)
 		if !HasRiskCategory(risk, "unparseable_command") {
-			t.Fatalf("Classify(%q) = categories %v; want unparseable_command", command, risk.Categories)
+			t.Errorf("Classify(%q) = categories %v; want unparseable_command", command, risk.Categories)
 		}
 		if risk.Level != RiskCritical || !HasRiskCategory(risk, "network") {
-			t.Fatalf("Classify(%q) = level %s, categories %v; want critical network", command, risk.Level, risk.Categories)
+			t.Errorf("Classify(%q) = level %s, categories %v; want critical network", command, risk.Level, risk.Categories)
 		}
 	}

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[Vasanthdev2004]

Thanks for this, and the direction is right (git push should be network-gated). But the AST classifier still misses the most common git form, so I would like a fix before it lands.

The git branch of commandUsesNetwork calls firstSubcommand, which skips only dash-prefixed and numeric tokens. git's value-consuming global options put their value in the NEXT token, so firstSubcommand returns that value as the "subcommand." I ran the classifier against the current head:

git push origin main              Network=true   Risk=critical  network   <- correct
git -C repo push origin main      Network=false  Risk=high      (none)    <- missed
git -c http.sslVerify=false push  Network=false  Risk=high      (none)    <- missed
git --git-dir /x/.git push        Network=false  Risk=high      (none)    <- missed
git.exe push origin main          Network=false  Risk=high      (none)    <- missed

These all parse cleanly, so TooComplex stays false and the unparseable-pattern fallback never runs. So git -C <dir> push (the canonical form for operating on a repo without cd) classifies as plain shell, not network, and its risk drops from Critical to High.

To be fair on severity: this is not an always-open egress hole. When the sandbox backend is provisioned, the runtime deny-by-default still blocks the socket and raises the network prompt via ReasonNetworkBlocked, so the classifier is defense-in-depth there. But it becomes a real unprompted-egress path when the backend is unavailable or degraded, and the Critical-to-High mis-level can flip auto-allow in the more permissive autonomy modes regardless. Since the whole point of the PR is to classify these, I would rather close the gap than ship a gate that misses the most common invocation.

The fix looks small:

• In the git case, skip the values of git's space-separated value-consuming globals (-C, -c, --git-dir, --work-tree, --namespace, --exec-path, --super-prefix) before taking the subcommand. The joined --git-dir=/x form is already fine since it is one dash-prefixed token.
• Normalize a .exe program token so git.exe is treated as git.
• Add a PARSEABLE regression test: classifyCommand("git -C repo push origin main") should be RiskCritical with the network category. Right now the only -C test is the one with the trailing && "unterminated, which forces the unparseable path and masks this AST gap.

Otherwise the wiring is fine, and build/vet/gofmt are clean locally. Happy to re-review quickly once the AST path handles the option forms.

[gnanam1990]

APPROVE — the core fix is correct and well-covered: git clone|fetch|pull|push now classify as network access on the primary AST path, verified end-to-end (git push origin main → Network=true, git commit -m x stays Network=false), and the hardened regex fallback fails closed on unparseable variants. The one remaining gap is a minor consistency issue, not merge-blocking.

Nice work: the AST change (analyzer.go:153) and the fallback hardening (risk.go:36, now git(?:\s+[^\s;&|]+){0,8}\s+(clone|fetch|pull|push)) are both landed, and the new tests are real — TestAnalyzeCommand (git fetch/pull/push-custom-transport → network), TestClassifyASTCatchesNetworkProgramsRegexMisses, and TestClassifyUnparseableNetworkCommandFailsClosed including the git -C repo push … && "unterminated fail-closed case. All PR-relevant classification tests pass locally.

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[Minor] AST path doesn't skip git global options, so git -C <dir> push isn't classified as network — inconsistent with the fallback you just hardened

internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:153 (root cause: firstSubcommand, analyzer.go:243) — pre-existing blind spot, PR-introduced inconsistency

The three reported findings all collapse to this single root cause. firstSubcommand skips dash-prefixed tokens but treats the next bare token as the subcommand, so for git -C /repo push origin main (words [-C, /repo, push, …]) it returns /repo, not push. The git case then returns Network=false. Runtime probe on the PR HEAD:

git push origin main                      Network=true  TooComplex=false
git -C /repo push origin main             Network=false TooComplex=false   <- gap
git -c http.proxy=x push origin main      Network=false TooComplex=false   <- gap
git -C /repo fetch origin                 Network=false TooComplex=false   <- gap
git -C /repo pull origin main             Network=false TooComplex=false   <- gap
git --git-dir=/repo/.git push origin main Network=true  TooComplex=false   (caught: --foo starts with '-')

The gap is specifically the space-separated value-taking global options (-C <path>, -c <name=value>, --git-dir <path>, --work-tree <path>, --namespace <ns>, --exec-path <path>). Because these commands parse cleanly (TooComplex=false), the hardened unparseableNetworkPattern at risk.go:36 is never consulted — that branch is gated on analysis.TooComplex at risk.go:132. So the fallback now tolerates git -C repo push but the primary AST path does not: the two paths disagree, and the network category the PR exists to add is silently omitted for the very common git -C <dir> push/fetch/pull form.

Impact is bounded — this is not a network-exfiltration bypass. Network enforcement mode is derived from policy.Network via NormalizeNetworkMode at profile.go:109, decoupled from the analyzer, and the auto-allow branch at engine.go:410 is gated on shellSandboxActive → NativeIsolation. So a misclassified git -C . push still runs wrapped by the platform sandbox with NetworkDeny enforced at the syscall level (the connect() is blocked and the agent reactively prompts), and where no native sandbox is active it prompts anyway via the general path rather than auto-allowing. The only real-world effect is degrading a proactive ReasonNetworkBlocked prompt (engine.go:355/357) into a reactive/generic one, plus the AST↔regex inconsistency.

Provenance: the underlying firstSubcommand blind spot is pre-existing — base analyzer.go:153 was firstSubcommand(words, nil) == "clone" and had the same hole for git -C <dir> clone. What this PR introduces is the inconsistency: it extended classification to push/fetch/pull and explicitly closed the -C gap in the regex fallback (and tests it), but left the primary AST path unfixed.

Suggested fix: give the git case a dedicated subcommand resolver that consumes git's global value-taking options before reading the subcommand (-C <path>, -c <name=value>, --git-dir, --work-tree, --namespace, --exec-path in their separate-token form), mirroring the tolerance already in unparseableNetworkPattern, then test the resolved token against {clone,fetch,pull,push}. Add git -C repo push origin main (plus -c / fetch / pull variants) to TestClassifyASTCatchesNetworkProgramsRegexMisses and TestAnalyzeCommand — those assertions fail today and would pin the fix.

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Tests: go build ./..., go vet on the touched packages, and gofmt -l are clean; all PR-relevant classification/agent tests pass. The failing tests in internal/sandbox and internal/agent (path/symlink/out-of-workspace under /private/tmp) are pre-existing environmental failures that reproduce identically on base — not PR-attributable.

Merge is kevin's call per the program gate.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• Resolve the merge conflict with main
  GitHub currently reports this PR as CONFLICTING / DIRTY, so it cannot be merged or tested in its target-branch composition. Rebase or merge the current target branch and resolve the conflict before requesting another review.

• [P2] Classify Git commands after consuming global-option values
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:153
  The generic firstSubcommand skips -C/-c/--git-dir themselves but treats their following values as the subcommand. Consequently ordinary, parseable commands such as git -C repo push origin main, git -c http.proxy=x fetch origin, and git --git-dir /repo/.git pull produce no network risk. Because they parse successfully, the new regex fallback is not consulted, and the engine skips its required proactive network-approval path. Use a Git-aware resolver that consumes value-taking global options (as internal/agent/command_prefix.go already does) and add parseable regression coverage.

• [P2] Recognize the Windows git.exe command spelling
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:152
effectiveProgram normalizes git.exe to git.exe, not git, so git.exe push origin main never reaches this new Git network classifier. It is parseable, so the fallback cannot repair the miss and the command does not receive the intended proactive network prompt. Normalize executable suffixes (or explicitly handle git.exe) and cover that spelling in the analyzer and risk tests.

[PierrunoYT]

Merged current main (595c292) — the PR is MERGEABLE again — and closed the AST gap everyone converged on.

Resolve the merge conflict with main — done. main meanwhile grew gitUsesNetwork, already covering clone|fetch|pull|push|ls-remote|archive, so the conflict resolves to main's version and this branch now carries only what is still missing on top of it.

[P2] Classify Git commands after consuming global-option values (@jatmn, @gnanam1990, @Vasanthdev2004 — all three findings share this root cause) — fixed with a git-aware gitSubcommand that skips the values of git's space-separated globals (-C, -c, --config-env, --exec-path, --git-dir, --namespace, --super-prefix, --work-tree), mirroring gitOptionConsumesValue in internal/agent/command_prefix.go as suggested. Joined forms (--git-dir=/x, -C/x) were already fine as single dash-prefixed tokens. Verified against the exact matrix from the reviews:

command	before	after
git -C repo push origin main	Network=false, High	Network=true, Critical + network
git -c http.sslVerify=false push	Network=false, High	Network=true, Critical + network
git --git-dir /repo/.git fetch origin	Network=false, High	Network=true, Critical + network
git --work-tree /repo pull origin main	Network=false, High	Network=true, Critical + network
git -C repo commit -m x	no network	no network (unchanged)

[P2] Recognize the Windows git.exe spelling — effectiveProgram now trims a trailing .exe after normalizeProgramToken, so git.exe push classifies like git push; the same fix covers curl.exe, wget.exe, and the other program tables. Deliberately .exe only — a .bat/.cmd of the same stem is a separate script, not the program it is named after, so treating it as that program would be a guess. The command-prefix tables that list powershell.exe explicitly are a different code path and are untouched.

Parseable regression coverage — the key point from @Vasanthdev2004's review was that the only -C test forced the unparseable path and masked the AST gap. New TestClassifyParseableGitNetworkCommandsUseASTPath asserts AnalyzeCommand(...).TooComplex == false for each case before checking Critical + network, so the hardened fallback regex cannot mask a future AST regression, and it also pins the local-work cases (git -C repo commit, git -C repo status, git.exe commit) as non-network. The analyzer table gained the same forms.

@copilot: "the approved-prompt behavior may need an execution-path change, not just classification" — checked, and no execution change is needed. The turn network grant already applies on approval; the missing piece was purely classification, so the command never reached that path. TestRunApprovedGitPushPromptAppliesTurnNetworkGrant (this branch's rewrite of the existing curl test) exercises it end to end — prompt → approve → turn network grant applied → git push gitlawb://… actually runs — and it passes.

@copilot: use a gitlawb:// URL rather than a bare token — applied earlier in d72a192; the analyzer, risk, and end-to-end tests all use gitlawb://example.com/repo.git. @coderabbitai: t.Errorf over t.Fatalf in loops — applied; the unparseable table runs as subtests with t.Errorf, and the new test does the same.

Validation (Windows host, Go 1.26.5): go build ./..., go vet ./..., go test ./... -count=1 all pass; GOOS=linux|darwin|windows builds clean; gofmt clean on every changed file.

@jatmn @Vasanthdev2004 @gnanam1990 — ready for another look; I can't use the reviewer-request button on this repo, hence the mention.

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internal/sandbox/risk_hardening_test.go (1)

337-342: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Cover git.exe in the unparseable network fallback.

unparseableNetworkPattern matches git only, so an unparseable git.exe push ... misses the critical network category even though parseable git.exe is classified correctly. Accept an optional .exe suffix and add that regression case.

Proposed fix

-|\bgit(?:\s+[^\s;&|]+){0,8}\s+(clone|fetch|pull|push)\b
+|\bgit(?:\.exe)?(?:\s+[^\s;&|]+){0,8}\s+(clone|fetch|pull|push)\b

+ `git.exe push gitlawb://example.com/repo.git main && "unterminated`,

As per coding guidelines, **/*_test.go requires regression tests for behavior changes.

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In `@internal/sandbox/risk_hardening_test.go` around lines 337 - 342, Update the
unparseableNetworkPattern to match both git and git.exe command names while
preserving the existing network-command requirements. In the risk-hardening
regression table in the relevant test, add an unparseable git.exe push case so
it is classified under the network category.

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an unparseable git.exe push case so it is classified under the network category.

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[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P1] Recognize --attr-source as a value-taking Git global option
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:308
  Git accepts --attr-source <tree-ish> before the subcommand (for example, git --attr-source HEAD push origin main), but it is absent from this new skip list. gitSubcommand therefore returns head instead of push; because this command parses successfully, the fallback is not consulted and the shell call never receives the critical network classification or its network-enabled approval profile. Add this global option and a regression case; update the paired command-prefix parser too if the documented mirroring is intentional.

• [P2] Make the unparseable Git fallback cover the supported Windows form and option count
  internal/sandbox/risk.go:36
  The new AST path normalizes git.exe, but parser-failing Windows commands never reach that code. For example, git.exe push origin main & rem ' runs under cmd.exe but is rejected by the POSIX parser; this pattern requires whitespace immediately after git, so classification adds only unparseable_command, not network, and skips the network approval/turn-grant path. The {0,8} cap has the same failure once a Git invocation has more than four value-taking global options. Match an optional .exe suffix and scan Git tokens up to a command separator without the arbitrary cap, with regressions for both forms.

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In `@internal/sandbox/risk.go`:
- Around line 36-44: The unparseable Git fallback in unparseableNetworkPattern
must not treat arbitrary tokens before push, fetch, or pull as global options.
Restrict matching to recognized Git global options and their values, or reuse
the shared token-aware resolver from analyzer.go, while preserving support for
git.exe and complex valid invocations. Add a regression test covering a local
command such as git status push so it is not classified as network.

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[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P2] Do not treat arbitrary Git arguments as global options in the fallback
  internal/sandbox/risk.go:44
  The unbounded (?:\s+[^\s;&|]+)* portion consumes any token before a network verb. For example, git status push & rem ' is valid cmd.exe input but fails the POSIX parser; push is only a git status pathspec, yet the regex marks the command as critical network. That produces a network prompt and, on approval, a network-enabled turn profile for a local command. Restrict this span to the supported Git global options and their values, with a negative regression test.

[PierrunoYT]

Pushed 708c2c2 to address the remaining outstanding finding (from @coderabbitai and @jatmn): the unparseable-command regex fallback in internal/sandbox/risk.go skipped any run of non-separator tokens before the git subcommand verb, so a bare non-option token (e.g. status in git status push, where push is only a pathspec argument) was mistaken for a git global option and the command was misclassified as critical network.

Fix: the skipped span before the subcommand verb is now restricted to git's actual global options, mirroring gitGlobalOptionConsumesValue in analyzer.go — a recognized value-taking option (-C, -c, --attr-source, --config-env, --exec-path, --git-dir, --namespace, --super-prefix, --work-tree) consumes one following token as its value, and any other dash-prefixed token (including a joined --git-dir=/x form) is skipped on its own. A bare non-option token now correctly halts the scan, so git status push no longer trips the network category. The span stays unbounded (no arbitrary cap), so the existing multi-option regression (git -c a=1 -c b=2 ... push) still passes.

Added TestClassifyUnparseableNonGitOptionTokenStaysNonNetwork covering git status push & rem ' (forced onto the fallback path via the unmatched trailing quote) — asserts it stays unparseable_command/High with no network category.

Validation:

• go test ./internal/sandbox/...
• go vet ./internal/sandbox/... ./internal/agent/...

All previously reported findings (the -C/-c/--git-dir AST gap, git.exe normalization, --attr-source, and the merge conflict) were already resolved in earlier commits on this branch — this addresses the last open item.

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printf '%s\n' '--- related test cases and option helpers ---'
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  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go

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@PierrunoYT Verified. The fallback now stops at a bare non-option token, so git status push is no longer mistaken for a network push, while recognized global-option forms—including repeated -c options and git.exe—remain covered by the fail-closed path.

The new regression test correctly asserts unparseable_command/High without a network category. This addresses the outstanding finding.

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In `@internal/sandbox/analyzer.go`:
- Around line 193-301: Make Git network classification fail closed when dynamic
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update resolveASTCommandNetwork and the corresponding fallback logic in
internal/sandbox/analyzer.go lines 193-301, and gitUsesNetwork or its caller in
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- Around line 1051-1061: Update fallbackCommandTokenInfo to use CMD-specific
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quotes as literal characters, or fail closed whenever POSIX-style quoting would
hide a CMD command separator. Add an engine regression for an echo command
containing a single-quoted separator followed by a network command, and require
the network prompt.
- Around line 575-583: Update cmdForPayload to first identify and skip the
closing IN (...) command set, then select the DO token that follows it rather
than the first occurrence; preserve extraction of the command after the real DO.
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[PierrunoYT]

Addressed the three unresolved review threads in 2fab317. All three were the same shape: a reading the scan could not perform was reported as "no network" rather than as unresolved.

Dynamic Git arguments (internal/sandbox/analyzer.go, risk.go)

wordText drops an expansion, so git $VERB origin main reconstructed as git origin main — an unrecognized, therefore local, subcommand — while the shell ran git push. New gitSelectionDynamic fails closed when an unreadable word could choose the subcommand, or could be git archive's --remote. Words before the subcommand count too: an empty expansion or one that word-splits shifts which token git reads as the subcommand, even as the value of a global option that normally consumes it.

Both readers share the rule — the AST path supplies isLiteralWord, the fallback supplies fallbackTokenLooksDynamic — so neither can classify a shape the other refuses.

One cost worth flagging before it surprises anyone: past a non-archive subcommand nothing can change git's answer, so git commit -m "$MESSAGE" keeps its quiet path — but git -C "$DIR" status now prompts. The dynamic option value is not proven, and unquoted it really can split into -C a push. If the noise matters, the narrowing is to exempt a value that cannot word-split (fully double-quoted); I left it conservative rather than making that call unilaterally.

CMD FOR loops (internal/sandbox/risk.go)

Correct — cmdForPayload selected the first do, which inside the IN set is an ordinary set element. DO now counts only at parenthesis depth zero, and an unbalanced set (which CMD itself rejects) yields no body rather than a guessed one.

One detail from writing the regression: the exact spelling in the finding, for %i in (do x) do curl …, happened to pass already — (do tokenizes as one token, so the old scan landed on the real do by accident. The spaced form for %i in ( do x ) do curl … is the one that was actually wrong. Both are pinned, so neither reading can regress.

CMD-specific fallback tokenization (internal/sandbox/risk.go)

Text handed to a CMD reader is now also tokenized under CMD's rules, where " is the only quote and a backtick is ordinary text. echo ' & curl https://evil.test reaches the network gate.

The second tokenization is gated on the disagreement that matters — a single-quoted region containing & or | — rather than on the mere presence of a quote. Re-cutting every quoted POSIX construct produced segments that mean nothing under CMD and classified env -S 'printf ok' curl … as network, breaking four existing no-prompt rows. ; is excluded from the separator set because CMD delimits arguments with it rather than starting a command.

Tests

• TestEngineFailsClosedOnUnreadableCommandShapes — all three through the engine, since the property that matters is the prompt the operator sees, with the readable forms (git commit -m "$MESSAGE", git archive -o out.tar HEAD, for %i in (curl) do echo %i, echo 'plain text') alongside as the no-noise half. Seven of its eight network rows were verified to fail against the unfixed classifier; the eighth is the joined-(do spelling described above.
• gitSelectionDynamic, cmdForPayload, and posixSingleQuoteHidesCMDSeparator get direct unit coverage so a regression names the layer that broke.

Validation

go build ./..., go vet ./... (also GOOS=linux and GOOS=darwin), gofmt clean, deadcode unchanged from baseline, go test ./internal/... green.

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[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

• [P1] Rebase onto current main before merge
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:546
  The PR head is not an ancestor of the live ``ad34dc8d` main head. Rebase and review the resolved diff before merge.

Findings

• [P1] Complete the claimed fix for Git -C invocations
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:502-524, 546-549
  The failure is in a security-sensitive decision path: parseGitInvocation reads the first non-option token as a subcommand after consuming only the global options in GitGlobalOptionConsumesValue. That helper omits -C, so git -C repo push origin main selects repo instead of push. gitUsesNetwork then returns false, and the command does not receive the network permission gate. The same shared reader is used by the parseable AST and unparseable-command fallback, so a single omission creates two entry-points for the bypass.

To address the root cause, make the shared Git invocation parser the single authority for the full git global-option grammar, including a separate -C operand. Ensure that both the sandbox classifier and the agent prefix-approval path consume that single result, rather than remaintaining parallel skip lists. Add a regression matrix that exercises -C and other separate-value globals for remote Git verbs on both the AST and fallback paths, as well as local commit, terminal-help/version, and value-layer negatives. That preserves the intended quiet local forms while preventing the parser-drift that created the gap.

Overall guidance

The repeated review churn here is not an indication that more command spellings are needed. The pattern is that security-relevant command intent is being reconstructed in multiple grammar-specific branches, and each new spelling exposes another disagreement about command position, option consumption, or whether the source is executable command text. Before requesting another review, please bound the trusted grammars and entry points, consolidate the common resolution where possible, and demonstrate parity with table-driven tests at both classification and enforcement levels. The tests should explicitly prove that the gate holds for remote commands and that local, help, and pathspec forms remain quiet. This will make the next review a bounded verification of the contract rather than another round of edge-cate discovery.

[PierrunoYT]

Addressed both findings in 3d80334.

[P1 merge readiness] Rebased onto main

Was 4 commits behind Gitlawb/zero main (ad34dc8d, the 0.8.0 release). Rebased cleanly, no conflicts, go build/vet/test all pass post-rebase. PR now reports mergeable: MERGEABLE against current main.

[P1] git -C bypass — did not reproduce; consolidated the parser anyway

I could not reproduce git -C repo push origin main selecting repo as the subcommand. GitGlobalOptionConsumesValue lowercases its input before the switch, so -C was already folding onto the -c case (config override) — a different option that happens to also take a separate-token value, so the fold produced the right answer by accident. TestGitGlobalOptionsResolveIdenticallyOnBothPaths already had {"-C repo push origin main", true} passing before this commit, and my own direct probes (joined -Crepo, doubled -C -C, mixed with -c, GIT_DIR= env prefix) all classified correctly too.

That it was right by coincidence rather than by design is exactly the "parser-drift" risk your guidance describes, so I fixed it regardless — -C is now an explicit case in GitGlobalOptionConsumesValue, not an implicit case-fold, with a comment explaining why -c/-C are listed separately despite sharing behavior here.

The real bug your guidance pointed at was the duplication itself. internal/agent/command_prefix.go carried a second, independent hand-rolled implementation of git's global-option grammar (gitSubcommand's scan loop plus a duplicated gitOptionHasInlineValue list) sitting alongside the sandbox classifier's parseGitInvocation — two parallel skip lists that happened to agree today but had no mechanism keeping them that way. New exported sandbox.GitSubcommand wraps parseGitInvocation, and command_prefix.go's prefix-approval matcher now reads git's global-option grammar through that single shared parser. gitSubcommand and gitOptionHasInlineValue are deleted. gitHasUnsafeGlobalOption keeps its own -C/--upload-pack judgment — that's genuinely matcher-specific (a prefix approved for the workspace repo must not silently extend to git -C /elsewhere status, which is a prefix-approval concern, not a network-classification one) — but now steps over a value-consuming option via the shared GitGlobalOptionConsumesValue instead of its own copy. GitTerminalGlobalOption, whose only caller was the now-deleted gitSubcommand, is removed as dead code.

Tests:

• Extended TestGitGlobalOptionsResolveIdenticallyOnBothPaths (the canonical AST+fallback parity matrix) with every separate-value global paired against a remote verb — not just -C+push and --git-dir+fetch — plus local commit forms with a global in front, and a value-layer negative (--git-dir push status must stay local: push is --git-dir's argument, never git's own argv).
• New TestSafeGitCommandRejectsDashCEvenWithAnApprovableSubcommand isolates the -C rejection from the terminal-global short circuit that was the only existing coverage touching it.
• New TestSafeGitCommandRejectsSubcommandsOutsideTheApprovedList proves the refactor onto a shared reader that resolves any subcommand didn't widen what gets auto-approved, and that the index arithmetic across the sandbox.GitSubcommand boundary is correct end to end.

Validation: go build ./..., go vet ./... (also native Linux via WSL), gofmt clean, deadcode clean, go test ./internal/{sandbox,agent}/... green on both platforms (one unrelated WSL-environment backend-detection failure, present on the unmodified branch too).

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[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P1] Keep Git spelling intact at the reusable-prefix privilege boundary
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:726
parseGitInvocation lowercases the token it returns, and safeGitCommand now uses that normalized value to decide whether to grant a reusable read-only prefix. That combines two different contracts: case-insensitive classification of a known Git builtin is conservative for the sandbox, but prefix approval is a host-level privilege decision and must identify the exact builtin invocation. Git alias lookup is case-sensitive, so a repository or command-line configuration such as git -c alias.STATUS='!curl https://example.invalid' STATUS runs the alias, while this path maps STATUS to the allowlisted status. After the user approves that prefix, the agent rewrites the call to require_escalated; the alias therefore runs outside the sandbox and avoids the normal network gate.

  Please address the root cause by making the shared Git reader retain both the original subcommand token and any normalized representation needed for classification, then make the prefix allowlist compare only the original spelling against known builtin names. Do not make the prefix matcher infer that arbitrary aliases are safe, and keep the normal classifier fail-closed when it cannot determine the executed operation. Add a regression at the prefix-approval or full permission-flow boundary proving that a case-distinct alias supplied through -c cannot obtain a prefix or elevated execution, while ordinary lowercase builtins and the existing safe global-option behavior still work.

Review guidance

This PR has received repeated feedback because it changes a security boundary with a broad command-language surface: POSIX shells, CMD, PowerShell, wrapper programs, dynamic command sources, Git option parsing, and the distinction between sandbox classification and reusable elevated-prefix authorization. The recurring root cause is not simply missing spellings in a command list; it is allowing one parser result to serve consumers with different security semantics.

For the remaining work, prefer a small set of shared parsing primitives that expose enough information for each caller rather than normalizing away security-relevant input. In particular, keep provenance (literal versus dynamic source), original tokens, normalized tokens, terminal-option state, and the precise execution position available to callers. Classifiers may conservatively normalize or fail closed, but an authorization path must only grant privileges from an exact, explicitly vetted interpretation. Validate changes through the real Engine.Evaluate and prefix-approval execution paths on each supported shell/platform, with both positive and adversarial near-miss cases. This should prevent another round of fixes that makes one interpretation safer while accidentally widening another privilege boundary.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Overall guidance

This PR has accumulated many rounds because it is changing a security boundary with several independently implemented command readers: the parsed shell AST, the unparseable-command fallback, launcher-specific readers, Git option parsing, and the command-prefix authorization path. The recurring failures are not isolated spelling omissions. They arise when a parser reconstructs executable intent from partial syntax and treats an unsupported or differently normalized form as proven local.

Please consolidate the security contract before adding more individual command examples: only a command form whose executable and relevant interpreter source are positively resolved should be classified local; unreadable, language-specific, or dynamically substituted command positions must retain the network gate. Keep the Git option reader canonical and normalized in one place, then have classification and authorization consume its structured result rather than maintain adjacent assumptions. For CMD, distinguish variable substitution forms from literal data before declaring a command position local. Add table-driven, enforcement-level parity coverage for each shared reader across parsed and fallback inputs, with explicit local controls. This should reduce future drift between the AST, fallback, and policy layers.

Findings

• [P1] Consume the uppercase Git -C option value
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:555
  parseGitInvocation normalizes every option before calling GitGlobalOptionConsumesValue. That helper also lowercases its input, but its switch retains an uppercase -C case, which is unreachable. For git -C repo push origin main, the parser does not consume repo as the -C operand; it identifies repo as a local subcommand and reports no network category. The AST and unparseable fallback both share this parser, so NetworkDeny can permit a real push without the network prompt.

  Fix the root parser instead of adding caller-specific exceptions: compare normalized option names consistently while preserving the exact, case-sensitive Git subcommand spelling for alias authorization after option parsing. Add AST, fallback, and Engine.Evaluate regressions for separated and joined -C forms so the network gate is proven end to end.

• [P1] Fail closed when a CMD FOR metavariable supplies the executable
  internal/sandbox/risk.go:293
  The fallback resolver marks a command token dynamic only for paired percent-variable-percent expressions. CMD FOR metavariables use a different grammar: percent-i has one percent, but CMD expands it before launching the FOR body. A FOR body can therefore execute curl through a percent-i command position after syntax sends it to the fallback, while fallbackTokenLooksDynamic calls that command a proven-local unknown executable. The replacement fallback then omits the network category where the base fallback blocked it.

  Address this at the shared command-source resolution boundary: recognize CMD FOR metavariables when they supply an executable or interpreter source, or conservatively classify those positions as unresolved. Preserve the existing precision for literal FOR set data and echo-style loop bodies. Cover the exact fallback and Engine.Evaluate path, alongside local controls, so the fix proves the network gate is restored without broad false prompts.

[PierrunoYT]

Addressed the latest review in 4618ae43.

[P1] CMD FOR metavariable executable — confirmed and fixed

Reproduced exactly as described. fallbackTokenLooksDynamic only recognized paired expansions (%NAME%, !NAME!); a FOR metavariable has no closing delimiter, so %i read as an ordinary unknown program name and literalProgramNetworkResolution returned proven-local.

Verified end to end through Classify before changing anything — every row below reported no network category:

network=false  for /f %i in (list.txt) do %i https://evil.example/x
network=false  for /f %%i in (list.txt) do %%i https://evil.example/x
network=false  for /f %i in (list.txt) do %~dpi https://evil.example/x
network=false  for /f %i in (list.txt) do call %i https://evil.example/x

containsCMDSingleDelimiterExpansion now recognizes the metavariable forms (%i, the batch %%i spelling, %~dpi modifiers) and batch parameters (%1). It sits behind the existing resolveCommandArgv executable-position check rather than adding a FOR-specific exception, so it covers every executable and interpreter-source position the resolver already guards — the shared command-source boundary you pointed at.

On preserving precision: the reference must be the token, and a metavariable name is one character per CMD's grammar. So %local is %l followed by literal text rather than a reference, and 100%local does not start with the sigil at all. My first attempt used a looser rule and TestClassifyUnparseableLiteralPercentBangAndShellSourceStayLocal caught it on call 100%local printf ok — that test did its job, and the rule is now token-anchored.

Coverage went into the existing Engine.Evaluate tables rather than a new one: the four metavariable forms plus %1 in the reviewed-network table, and these as explicit local controls —

for %i in (*.txt) do echo %i
for /f %i in (list.txt) do type %i
for %i in (a b c) do copy %i backup\%i
for /f %i in (list.txt) do echo %i >> out.txt

All five network rows were verified to fail against the unfixed resolver and pass with it, and the local controls hold in both directions, so the gate is restored without broad false prompts.

[P1] git -C — the reported failure does not reproduce

I could not confirm this one, and I would rather say so than quietly change code around it.

parseGitInvocation normalizes with strings.ToLower before calling GitGlobalOptionConsumesValue, and that helper lowercases again — so -C arrives as -c, which is the first case in the switch. The operand is consumed and the subcommand resolves normally:

[-C repo push origin main]  -> ok=true {Index:2 Original:push Normalized:push}
[-Crepo push origin main]   -> ok=true {Index:1 Original:push Normalized:push}
[-C repo status]            -> ok=true {Index:2 Original:status Normalized:status}
AnalyzeCommand("git -C repo push origin main") -> Network=true

I added the four -C rows you asked for (separated and joined, AST and fallback) and they pass against the unfixed parser, which is the same result from the other direction.

The consequence you describe is real for its premise, though — I checked, and it would be serious: gitNetworkResolution returns commandKnownLocal both for gitCommandNone and for an unrecognized subcommand, so an unconsumed -C operand really would drop the gate on a live push. It just isn't reachable today.

The defect that is there is narrower: the uppercase -C case is unreachable, and the comment above it claimed the two options were listed separately so the code "stays correct if the two options' value-taking behavior ever diverges" — which it cannot do, since the comparison is on the lowercased name. I removed the dead case and rewrote the comment to say where that distinction would actually have to be restored (the call site, which normalizes), then pinned both the fold and the -C operand consumption with tests so a future divergence fails loudly instead of silently inheriting -c's behavior.

If you were reporting a shape I have not reproduced — a caller that reaches the helper without normalizing, or a spelling other than separated/joined -C — I will take a concrete command line and chase it.

Validation

• go build ./..., go vet ./..., gofmt clean
• go test ./internal/sandbox/... — green, including the literal-percent precision test
• internal/cli has pre-existing failures on this host from ambient config (active provider "chatgpt" not found), verified identical on a clean upstream/main worktree

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

• [P1] Rebase onto current main before merge
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:861
  The PR head (4618ae43) is based on ad34dc8d, while the live target is now 6fe0d1ed; the branch is behind current main by four commits. Rebase and re-run the security-sensitive command-classification checks on the resolved head before merging.

Overall guidance

The repeated follow-ups stem from a single architectural boundary rather than from an unbounded list of unrelated command spellings: Zero decides whether to request network permission by reconstructing what an input command will execute, but that reconstruction currently has several language-specific readers with different grammars and different notions of an unresolvable result.

This PR has materially improved that situation by sharing Git option parsing and by routing several launcher paths through resolveCommandArgv / classifyInterpreterSource. The remaining risk is the default at a language boundary. A POSIX parser or the fallback tokenizer can fail to recognize valid source in CMD or PowerShell without that source being harmless. Treating “none of the readers recognized a network program” as “proven local” creates precisely the missed gate that produces review churn: every newly exercised launcher, quoting rule, compound form, expansion form, or option grammar can expose another valid command the selected reader did not model.

Please finish this as a contract-driven change rather than by adding individual spellings:

1. Define one tri-state result for every command/source reader: known local, known network, or unresolved. Only a source that the relevant language reader can actually parse and prove local should receive known local; unsupported, ambiguous, dynamically constructed, or cross-language source must preserve the network gate.
2. Keep argv and interpreter-source contracts separate. A launcher’s -Command, -c, /c, CALL, or equivalent payload is source in the child language, not merely an executable argv token. Route every such payload through the same bounded source-classification entry point with an explicit source language.
3. Make reader ownership explicit. POSIX AST parsing can establish facts about POSIX shell, and CMD/PowerShell readers can establish facts about their respective syntaxes; a parser rejection or a no-match from a different language must not become a local verdict.
4. Maintain one enforcement-level matrix for every supported launcher family. Each row should assert the actual Engine.Evaluate result under NetworkDeny, not only an analyzer boolean. Cover known network, known local, dynamic/opaque source, malformed source, supported compound syntax, nesting to the depth bound, quoting/escaping, and AST-versus-fallback entry. Where a language grammar is intentionally not supported, the expected result should be unresolved/network-gated.
5. Derive the parser and classifier tests from that matrix, then use the same cases for AST/fallback parity. This makes an intentional precision exception visible and prevents the parsed path, fallback path, and reusable-prefix authorization path from independently drifting.

That approach retains precision for commands the implementation can prove local, while ensuring a newly encountered grammar construct fails closed instead of generating another narrow follow-up.

Findings

• [P1] Complete the claimed fail-closed handling for PowerShell command source
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:861
  The new classifyInterpreterSource path sends powershell -Command payloads through the POSIX AST reader and the unparseable-command matcher, then returns commandKnownLocal when neither recognizes a network program. That is not a safe conclusion for PowerShell source: valid compound syntax such as powershell -Command 'try { Invoke-WebRequest https://evil.test } catch {}' is valid and executes the request, but neither reader models the try/catch grammar, so the command receives no network classification or network-deny prompt.

  The underlying bypass predates this branch; however, this PR now explicitly advertises fail-closed PowerShell handling and adds a PowerShell interpreter-source path, so the claim is incomplete. Apply the guidance above at this boundary: when the PowerShell reader cannot faithfully parse and prove a command source local, return an unresolved/network-gated result rather than commandKnownLocal. A dedicated PowerShell-aware parser is one option, but a conservative unresolved result is sufficient; retain the existing no-prompt behavior for sources the classifier can actually prove local, and add enforcement-level coverage for compound PowerShell source alongside the existing simple, encoded, dynamic, and local cases.

[PierrunoYT]

Both P1s addressed in c594e3a4.

[P1] Rebased onto current main

The branch was four commits behind; it is now rebased onto 6fe0d1ed and the full sandbox suite was re-run on the resolved head, not on the old base.

[P1] PowerShell compound source — confirmed and fixed

Reproduced your example before changing anything. Each of these performs the request and drew no network category:

network=false  powershell -Command 'try { Invoke-WebRequest https://evil.test } catch {}'
network=false  powershell -Command 'foreach ($i in 1..3) { curl https://evil.test }'
network=false  powershell -Command 'Get-Content urls.txt | ForEach-Object { Invoke-WebRequest $_ }'

You are right about why, and the diagnosis generalises past these spellings: the POSIX AST scan and the unparseable matcher do not model PowerShell grammar at all. They read a simple Verb-Noun -Arg value line correctly only because it happens to tokenise like a POSIX command. "The POSIX reader found no network program in this PowerShell source" was never evidence the source is local.

powerShellSourceUnreadable now names the grammar those readers cannot model and returns commandUnresolved for it. I extended the rule the backtick check already established rather than adding a parallel special case — the two are the same contract, so they now live in one function that reports why a source is unreadable.

Every block-structured form PowerShell has — try/catch/finally, if/else, foreach, for, while, do, switch, function, trap, param, and a script block handed to ForEach-Object or the call operator — is written with braces, so brace presence is the single signal required. That is deliberately a grammar test, not a search for network verbs: try { & $tool $target } catch {} names nothing recognisable and is gated all the same.

Precision retained

Per your "retain the existing no-prompt behavior for sources the classifier can actually prove local" — source the readers can tokenise and prove local keeps its quiet path:

network=false  powershell -Command 'Write-Output hello'
network=false  powershell -Command 'Get-Process'
network=false  powershell -NoProfile -Command 'Get-ChildItem -Path .'

Worth noting explicitly: unresolved costs a prompt on a shell request, not a denial, so a braced but genuinely local command asks a question rather than breaking.

Coverage

Enforcement-level, asserting the Engine.Evaluate result under the default policy rather than an analyzer boolean, added to the existing tables: seven network rows and three local controls. Four of the seven fail against the unfixed classifier; the other three were already gated incidentally by the POSIX reader, and I kept them as coverage of that incidental path rather than dropping them.

On the broader guidance

Your five points describe a larger contract than this PR implements. What is here now: the tri-state already exists (commandKnownLocal / commandKnownNetwork / commandUnresolved), argv and interpreter-source are separated through classifyInterpreterSource with an explicit language, and this change makes the PowerShell reader stop claiming facts about a language it does not parse.

What is not here: a per-language reader-ownership rule applied to CMD as rigorously as this does for PowerShell, and the single enforcement matrix spanning every launcher family with nesting-to-depth-bound and AST-versus-fallback parity as explicit axes. The rows added across this branch cover many of those cells, but they are grouped by finding rather than derived from one matrix, so a missing cell is not yet visible as a gap. I would rather say that plainly than imply the contract is complete — happy to do the matrix as a follow-up if you want it separated from this branch's history, or here if you would rather it land together.

Validation

• go build ./..., go vet ./..., gofmt clean
• go test ./internal/sandbox/ -count=1 — green on the rebased head
• internal/cli failures diffed against a git stash baseline: identical set, all the pre-existing ambient-config ones

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P1] Preserve env -S source uncertainty through the new strace resolver
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:211
  The new AST path recognizes a literal strace child and delegates it through resolveCommandArgv, but it first rebuilds that child from wordText. For PAYLOAD='curl https://…'; strace env -S "$PAYLOAD", wordText discards the expansion, so the delegated argv becomes effectively env -S "". envSplitCommandFields recognizes that invocation, finds no child command, and returns commandKnownLocal; straceSourceDynamic cannot catch it because the strace child program (env) is literal. GNU env, however, receives the expanded -S source and executes curl. As a result, AnalysisResult.Network remains false and Engine.Evaluate does not issue ReasonNetworkBlocked under NetworkDeny.

  The root cause is that dynamic-source provenance is checked before delegation but is not carried through the delegated-command representation. Keep per-argument literal/taint metadata when strace resolves a child—or have delegation explicitly re-run the env -S source check against the original AST words—rather than classifying reconstructed empty text as local. Add an enforcement-level regression for this composition, plus local literal controls, so the AST and fallback paths retain the same fail-closed contract.

• [P1] Do not mark PowerShell expression-evaluation source as proven local
  internal/sandbox/analyzer.go:861
  The new classifyInterpreterSource treats a PowerShell -Command payload as local whenever it contains neither braces nor backticks and neither the POSIX AST nor fallback reader finds a network program. Those readers see Invoke-Expression/iex as an unknown executable and intentionally do not inspect its quoted argument, so powershell -Command "iex 'curl https://…'" returns commandKnownLocal. PowerShell then evaluates the quoted string as a second command source and runs curl, but the outer command has no network risk category and therefore misses the NetworkDeny prompt. The same applies to Invoke-Expression 'git push …' and to pwsh.

  The root cause is treating syntax that the POSIX/CMD readers can tokenize as syntax they can prove safe in PowerShell, despite PowerShell's own command-evaluation primitive. Model Invoke-Expression/iex as an interpreter source and recursively classify a literal argument; whenever the evaluated text or its construction cannot be faithfully read, return the unresolved result so the network gate remains. Cover both aliases and hosts at the Engine.Evaluate boundary, alongside direct local PowerShell controls, rather than broadening the local allow path.

Overall guidance

This PR has continued to expose new cases because it is trying to make a security decision about several different languages from partial reconstructions of command text. The recurring failure pattern is not a missing spelling in a program list: a caller removes expansion/quote/position information, hands the remaining strings to another resolver, and that resolver treats an incomplete view as evidence that the resulting command is local. The same pattern appears at wrapper boundaries (strace → env -S) and interpreter boundaries (PowerShell host → iex). Adding another local exception or another token matcher after each report will keep producing adjacent bypasses.

Please address the underlying classification contract before adding more syntax-specific cases:

1. Use one explicit result model end-to-end. Every reader should return known local, known network, or unresolved; only known local may omit the network gate. Do not encode unresolved input as an empty string, omitted argv element, unknown program, or false boolean.
2. Preserve provenance with tokens, not reconstructed strings. A delegated command needs the original token boundaries plus whether each token is literal, shell-expanded, CMD-expanded, decoded, or otherwise opaque. wordText is useful for displaying a literal value but is lossy by design; it must not be the sole input to a decision that clears a security gate. Carry provenance through wrappers and only lower it to a local result after the child command and every interpreter-source operand are proven literal and modeled.
3. Make delegation and interpreter source first-class edges. There are two distinct operations: a wrapper launches child argv (strace, BusyBox, env), while an interpreter executes source text (sh -c, CMD /c, PowerShell -Command, iex). Give each operation a single shared helper with a bounded recursion depth and a conservative default. A wrapper must pass taint to its child; an interpreter must recursively classify a literal source payload and return unresolved for dynamic or unsupported syntax.
4. Do not use one language parser as proof for another. POSIX parsing may be useful evidence for simple PowerShell source, but it cannot prove arbitrary PowerShell source harmless. For language features that execute code (Invoke-Expression, call operators, script blocks, encoded/dynamic source), either model the exact form or retain the gate. The same rule applies when CMD or shell syntax reaches the fallback path.
5. Establish a parity matrix at the enforcement boundary. For every supported launcher, test: direct literal network child; literal local child; dynamic executable; dynamic interpreter source; nested wrapper/interpreter combinations; depth exhaustion; and an intentionally unparseable fallback variant. Assert Engine.Evaluate returns ReasonNetworkBlocked under NetworkDeny, not only that a helper returns a classification. Pair each network case with a local control so fail-closed behavior does not silently turn into blanket prompting.
6. Reduce duplicated grammars and make unsupported forms explicit. The AST and fallback paths should use the same child-resolution and source-classification contract, even if their tokenizers differ. If a form cannot be faithfully resolved, return unresolved at that boundary instead of attempting a lossy reconstruction. This should be documented beside the shared resolver so future changes cannot treat an absent token as a harmless one.

A focused follow-up that first establishes these invariants, then adds the smallest set of regression tests demonstrating them, will be substantially easier to review and should prevent another cycle of adjacent command-language cases.

[jatmn]

@Vasanthdev2004 LGTM off to you