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Michael Bolin 59398125f6 feat: zsh-fork forces scripts/**/* for skills to trigger a prompt (#12730)
Direct skill-script matches force `Decision::Prompt`, so skill-backed
scripts require explicit approval before they run. (Note "allow for
session" is not supported in this PR, but will be done in a follow-up.)

In the process of implementing this, I fixed an important bug:
`ShellZshFork` is supposed to keep ordinary allowed execs on the
client-side `Run` path so later `execve()` calls are still intercepted
and reviewed. After the shell-escalation port, `Decision::Allow` still
mapped to `Escalate`, which moved `zsh` to server-side execution too
early. That broke the intended flow for skill-backed scripts and made
the approval prompt depend on the wrong execution path.

## What changed
- In `codex-rs/core/src/tools/runtimes/shell/unix_escalation.rs`,
`Decision::Allow` now returns `Run` unless escalation is actually
required.
- Removed the zsh-specific `argv[0]` fallback. With the `Allow -> Run`
fix in place, zsh's later `execve()` of the script is intercepted
normally, so the skill match happens on the script path itself.
- Kept the skill-path handling in `determine_action()` focused on the
direct `program` match path.

## Verification
- Updated `shell_zsh_fork_prompts_for_skill_script_execution` in
`codex-rs/core/tests/suite/skill_approval.rs` (gated behind `cfg(unix)`)
to:
- run under `SandboxPolicy::new_workspace_write_policy()` instead of
`DangerFullAccess`
  - assert the approval command contains only the script path
- assert the approved run returns both stdout and stderr markers in the
shell output
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-core
shell_zsh_fork_prompts_for_skill_script_execution -- --nocapture`

## Manual Testing

Run the dev build:

```
just codex --config zsh_path=/Users/mbolin/code/codex2/codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/zsh --enable shell_zsh_fork
```

I have created `/Users/mbolin/.agents/skills/mbolin-test-skill` with:

```
├── scripts
│   └── hello-mbolin.sh
└── SKILL.md
```

The skill:

```
---
name: mbolin-test-skill
description: Used to exercise various features of skills.
---

When this skill is invoked, run the `hello-mbolin.sh` script and report the output.
```

The script:

```
set -e

# Note this script will fail if run with network disabled.
curl --location openai.com
```

Use `$mbolin-test-skill` to invoke the skill manually and verify that I
get prompted to run `hello-mbolin.sh`.

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