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What this fixes

The allowlist splitter cuts a command into sub-commands with a regex pipeline that cannot see nesting, so a substitution hidden inside a parameter expansion or truncated by nesting never gets matched against the lists and runs on the outer command's approval. #1947 has the two repro one-liners (echo ${x:-$(rm -rf ~/work)} and ls $(foo $(rm -rf /) bar), both auto_approve on main) and the root-cause walkthrough; this PR implements the fix that issue asks for.

What the PR does

  • Replaces the sequential regex pre-replacement pipeline in src/shared/parse-command.ts with one quote-aware, left-to-right scan that tracks quote state, delimiter depth, and heredoc state in a single pass. shell-quote still tokenizes the masked host text; every extracted substitution payload (nested, inside a ${...} expansion, inside a process substitution, or inside a heredoc with an unquoted delimiter) is re-scanned through the same path and becomes its own segment.
  • Extends fail-closed: when the scan opens a $(, ${, backtick, <(, or >( and cannot close it, leaves an arithmetic expression ($(( or $[) unclosed, sees a stray ) or } with no opener, a raw NUL byte, or substitution nesting beyond 64 levels, parseCommand returns a parse error and the decision is malformed_command (ask/deny). Unbalanced delimiters inside quoted regions stay parseable; a shell never parses them there.

Scope

  • Allow/deny matching semantics are unchanged. Extracted segments are judged by the existing rules; the commands.ts changes in this diff are comments only. This is a fix to where the string is cut, not to how a segment is matched.
  • Substitutions inside double-quoted regions stay opaque to the splitter. That opacity is pre-existing and this PR does not touch it (see follow-ups).
  • Heredoc bodies under an unquoted delimiter are scanned for substitutions (the shell expands them there); bodies under a quoted delimiter stay literal.

Tests

  • Targeted suites (src/core/auto-approval, src/shared/__tests__/parse-command.spec.ts): 15 files / 350 tests pass, exit 0, up from 300 on main: 50 new tests covering both repro cases, nested and process substitution, heredoc coverage, and each fail-closed trigger (unclosed $(/${/backtick/<(/>(/arithmetic, stray closer, NUL, depth 65).
  • Webview consumer: command-parser.spec.ts 32 pass (3 new pins for substitution, process substitution, and the fail-closed opaque case); CommandExecution.spec.tsx 38 pass as the regression floor on the command UI.
  • check-types: 0 errors. ESLint clean on all touched files. The shared/parse-command.ts suppression entry in src/eslint-suppressions.json is removed (its no-explicit-any count is gone with the rewrite).

Known limitations / follow-ups

  • Substitutions inside double-quoted regions are not extracted (echo "$(whoami)" stays one opaque segment). Pre-existing, unchanged here; candidate follow-up.
  • Splitting the remainder of a heredoc opener line (cat <<EOF && evil) is unchanged from main. Pre-existing; candidate follow-up.
  • A command word around 4 million characters overflows shell-quote's stack and reaches the crude-split fallback, which inlines substitutions instead of extracting them. A probe of that input behaves identically on main and on this branch, so it is recorded as pre-existing rather than touched here.

Shell scope

The splitter parses bash and POSIX-style shell syntax only. The msys/Cygwin bash is the reference shell on the Windows target. Input for other shells is read with the same bash rules. PowerShell script blocks and backtick escapes are documented consequences, pinned by characterization tests. A PowerShell grammar is separate scope.

A )' at depth 0 and a } that matches an open bare { are host text, not errors: bash closes case patterns with ) and accepts balanced braces in ordinary words. A stray } with no opener still fails closed.

Closes #1947

The command splitter pre-replaced shell constructs with placeholder
tokens by regex before handing the string to shell-quote. Parameter
expansions were masked before substitution extraction, so the payload
of `echo ${x:-$(rm -rf ~/work)}` never became its own segment, and the
lazy substitution regex cut nested forms at the first close paren, so
`ls $(foo $(rm -rf /) bar)` produced three bogus fragments. In both
shapes the inner command rode the outer command's allowlist approval
(Zoo-Code-Org#1947).

Replace the sequential regex pipeline in parse-command.ts with one
quote-aware, left-to-right scan that tracks quote state, delimiter
depth, and heredoc state in a single pass. shell-quote still
tokenizes the masked host text. Every extracted substitution payload
is re-scanned through the same path, so nested, expansion-embedded,
process-substitution, and heredoc-embedded commands become independent
segments that each match the allow/deny lists under the existing
rules. A heredoc body under an unquoted delimiter is scanned, because
the shell expands substitutions there; a quoted-delimiter body stays
literal.

The scan also fails closed. An expansion or arithmetic delimiter that
was opened but never closed, a stray close delimiter with no opener,
a raw NUL byte, or substitution nesting beyond 64 levels now yields a
parse error, and the decision becomes malformed_command (ask/deny)
instead of an approval resting on a partial decomposition. Unbalanced
delimiters inside quoted regions stay parseable: a shell never parses
them there.

Allow/deny matching semantics are untouched; commands.ts gains
comment updates only. Substitutions inside double-quoted regions
remain opaque to the splitter, as before.
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  • Bug Fixes
    • Shell command analysis now recognizes commands embedded in command, process, arithmetic, parameter, and backtick substitutions.
    • Malformed syntax—including unclosed expansions, stray delimiters, NUL bytes, and excessive nesting—is safely classified as malformed.
    • Heredoc handling now consistently supports line endings, continuations, quoted delimiters, and tab-stripping rules.
    • Commands with unbalanced delimiters inside quoted text remain valid when appropriate.
    • Malformed substitutions no longer expose trailing content as executable commands.

The shared shell parser now scans nested substitutions and heredocs, extracts inner commands, and fails closed on structural errors. Auto-approval tests verify independent evaluation of extracted commands and malformed-command decisions.

Changes: Shell command parsing and approval

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track shell structure and malformed input
src/shared/parse-command.ts, src/shared/__tests__/parse-command.spec.ts
The scanner tracks shell syntax, reports structural failures, rejects NUL bytes, and enforces the nesting limit.
Scan heredocs and expansion frames
src/shared/parse-command.ts, src/shared/__tests__/parse-command.spec.ts, src/core/auto-approval/__tests__/commands.spec.ts
Heredoc parsing handles quoting, continuations, line endings, tab stripping, and nested expansions. Tests cover extraction and fail-closed cases.
Parse host commands and substitution payloads
src/shared/parse-command.ts, src/shared/__tests__/parse-command.spec.ts, webview-ui/src/utils/__tests__/command-parser.spec.ts, src/eslint-suppressions.json
parseCommand tokenizes masked host text and recursively emits substitution payloads. Malformed input remains opaque. The explicit-any suppression was removed.
Apply parser results to auto-approval decisions
src/core/auto-approval/commands.ts, src/core/auto-approval/__tests__/commands.spec.ts
Documentation defines structural failures as malformed_command. Tests cover nested substitutions, heredocs, executable tails, and detailed parse errors.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Input as Shell command
  participant Parser as parseCommand
  participant Approval as getCommandDecision
  participant Policy as Allowlist rules
  Input->>Parser: scan and extract commands
  Parser->>Approval: return commands or structural error
  Approval->>Policy: evaluate each extracted command
  Policy->>Approval: return decision
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Linked Issues check Error Issue #1947 requires unmatched closers to fail closed as malformed_command. The current scanner documents and implements a depth-zero ) as valid host text, and `getCommandDecision("echo )", ["echo… Make an unmatched closing delimiter fail closed when required by issue #1947. Update the scanner and decision-level tests so an allowlisted command followed by an unmatched closer returns malformed_command. Preserve valid shell contexts o…
Security Boundaries Error The changed src/shared/parse-command.ts still masks double-quoted regions as opaque (lines 1008-1015 and 1048-1054) and does not extract $() inside them. This regresses the base parser, which … Update src/shared/parse-command.ts to extract and independently re-scan command substitutions inside double-quoted regions while preserving quote grouping and operator handling. Add parser and decision-level regression tests proving `getC…
Regression Evidence Warning A changed parser behavior alters the visible command-pattern list without focused Playwright component coverage. parseCommand now emits nested substitution segments (`src/shared/parse-command.ts:160… Add a Playwright component visual test for CommandExecution or its real command-pattern surface. Use a nested or parameter-expansion command, verify that the inner pattern is visible, exercise the selector layout and allowed/denied states…
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: extracting nested shell substitutions for auto-approval allowlist evaluation.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The production changes, tests, documentation, and lint-suppression cleanup support issue #1947. They implement substitution extraction, structural validation, fail-closed decisions, and regression cov…
Persistence Integrity Passed No changed persistence path exists. The production changes are limited to shell parsing and approval-decision documentation; parse-command.ts imports only shell-quote and performs in-memory scans,…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup Passed No changed lifecycle resource path exists. The production diff changes only pure parsing in src/shared/parse-command.ts and decision documentation/handling in src/core/auto-approval/commands.ts. T…
Description check Passed The description explains the issue, implementation, scope, limitations, testing, and linked issue. It does not reproduce the template checklist or separate documentation and contact sections, but the …
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The production changes, tests, documentation, and lint-suppression cleanup support issue #1947. They implement substitution extraction, structural validation, fail-closed decisions, and regression coverage. No unrelated product behavior is shown.

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No changed persistence path exists. The production changes are limited to shell parsing and approval-decision documentation; parse-command.ts imports only shell-quote and performs in-memory scans, and commands.ts only calls parseCommand and evaluates decisions. The other changed files are tests or an ESLint suppression file. No write, persistence, rollback, or default-propagation operation changed.

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No changed lifecycle resource path exists. The production diff changes only pure parsing in src/shared/parse-command.ts and decision documentation/handling in src/core/auto-approval/commands.ts. The changed files contain no listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, subscription, cancellation, disposal, or restart APIs.

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The description explains the issue, implementation, scope, limitations, testing, and linked issue. It does not reproduce the template checklist or separate documentation and contact sections, but the core review information is complete.

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Issue #1947 requires unmatched closers to fail closed as malformed_command. The current scanner documents and implements a depth-zero ) as valid host text, and getCommandDecision("echo )", ["echo"]) is tested as auto_approve. This does not meet the linked issue requirement for unmatched closing delimiters. The reported extraction, heredoc, nesting, NUL, depth-limit, and regression-test changes are otherwise represented in the reviewed changes.

Resolution

Make an unmatched closing delimiter fail closed when required by issue #1947. Update the scanner and decision-level tests so an allowlisted command followed by an unmatched closer returns malformed_command. Preserve valid shell contexts only when the scanner can establish them without approving malformed input.

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The changed src/shared/parse-command.ts still masks double-quoted regions as opaque (lines 1008-1015 and 1048-1054) and does not extract $() inside them. This regresses the base parser, which extracted substitutions before quote masking (base lines 622-650). Therefore echo "$(rm -rf /)" remains one echo segment; containsDangerousSubstitution does not flag generic $(), so an allowlist containing echo can auto-approve a command that executes rm -rf / inside the double quotes.

Resolution

Update src/shared/parse-command.ts to extract and independently re-scan command substitutions inside double-quoted regions while preserving quote grouping and operator handling. Add parser and decision-level regression tests proving getCommandDecision('echo "$(rm -rf /)"', ['echo']) is not auto_approve.

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A changed parser behavior alters the visible command-pattern list without focused Playwright component coverage. parseCommand now emits nested substitution segments (src/shared/parse-command.ts:1602-1607), and CommandExecution feeds those segments into CommandPatternSelector (webview-ui/src/components/chat/CommandExecution.tsx:68-94,250-257). The existing CommandExecution.spec.tsx mocks CommandPatternSelector and its substitution test uses a loose text regex, so it does not verify the real selector layout or allowed/denied states. The only visual fixture uses fixed patterns (ThemeSensitiveStatus.visual.fixture.tsx:15-23) and does not exercise CommandExecution; the PR adds no component visual test or snapshots.

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Add a Playwright component visual test for CommandExecution or its real command-pattern surface. Use a nested or parameter-expansion command, verify that the inner pattern is visible, exercise the selector layout and allowed/denied states, and commit snapshots for every supported theme.

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@coderabbitai Unmatched depth-0 ) as host text is maintainer-requested (#2068 (comment)), matches base behavior, and is what CodeRabbit's own suggested case x in a ) foo ;; esac pin endorses.

Base 8018cba40 decides echo "$(rm -rf /)" auto_approve identically with ["echo"], so the behavior is pre-existing and disclosed under Known limitations in the PR body.

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@DaubnerF I agree. Thanks for the clarification. I withdraw both disputed findings.

  • Linked Issues: Depth-0 ) as host text is the requested behavior from the linked discussion. The tests preserve the case segment and verify that substitutions after a depth-0 ) remain independently extracted.
  • Security Boundaries: My regression claim was incorrect. In 8018cba40, the parser replaces $() before quote masking, but the quote placeholder hides the substitution placeholder from independent evaluation. Restoration puts the substitution back into the outer command. The double-quoted bypass is therefore pre-existing and explicitly outside this PR’s scope.

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// the body only. Walk the remainder unconditionally. An error there
// fails the whole heredoc closed, like a body error does.
const remainderEnd = endOfLine(endIndex)
const remainderError = walkBodyPayloads(endIndex, remainderEnd, payloads, 0)

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The opener-line remainder is only walked for substitutions here, so | & && || after the delimiter stay in the same segment. The PR body says this is unchanged from main, but the substitution form differs. echo $(cat <<E | rm x\nhi\nE\n) with cat and echo allowed and rm denied was ask_user on main. On this head it is auto_approve, because the payload becomes the single segment cat <<E | rm x\nhi\nE. Could the remainder be split at those operators, or fail closed when one appears?

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Inside a command substitution the remainder of the heredoc opener line was
walked for nested substitutions only, so an operator after the delimiter
stayed inside one segment. `echo $(cat <<E | rm x\nhi\nE\n)` auto-approved
with cat/echo allowed and rm denied: the segment `cat <<E | rm x` never
split, and the denied command stayed invisible. On main the same input
asked. The remainder now goes through the ordinary host tokenization: the
heredoc payload is emitted masked, and `|`, `&`, `;`, `(` and `)` split
segments, glued forms included, so that input now denies on `rm x`.

The scan carries the same hardening around it: comment handling after a
substitution closer is closer-aware, and a delimiter word that starts with
a metacharacter (`cat <<(x)`, `cat <<|rm x`) fails closed as a heredoc
parse error: bash rejects those shapes before executing anything, so
failing them closed cannot refuse a command main would have approved and
run. A `<<` opener followed only by blanks keeps its existing mask.

The parser was then hardened against mutation testing. Guards the mutant
runs left unpinned got guard rows in the parse spec, and the approval spec
carries matching decision pins that join the split segments against the
allow and deny lists, so a regression trips both the parse result and the
resulting auto-approve/ask/deny outcome. One pair of literals on the
arithmetic-detection line is disabled inline with a comment: erasing
either one only clears the double-parenthesis flag, and the scan then
re-counts the second `(` as an ordinary group paren at the same depth, so
no reachable input emits different host bytes.

Tests: parse-command.spec.ts pins the remainder splits, closer comments,
metacharacter guard and the unchanged controls; commands.spec.ts pins the
resulting decisions; the webview command-parser spec pins the shared
parser on the opener-remainder repro.

Reported in PR Zoo-Code-Org#2068 review, thread 4344495281.
@github-actions github-actions Bot removed the awaiting-author PR is waiting for the author to address requested changes label Oct 22, 2026

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[BUG] Command substitutions inside parameter expansions bypass the allowlist

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