## Why BUGB-15601 showed that the Windows safe-command path had drifted from the generic Git classifier. The Windows-specific Git parser could classify a PowerShell-wrapped `git` command as safe as soon as it found a safelisted subcommand, without applying the generic checks for unsafe subcommand options such as `--output`, `--ext-diff`, `--textconv`, `--paginate`, or `cat-file --filters`. The generic classifier already models the Git command boundary and the read-only argument checks more carefully, so Windows should reuse that logic instead of maintaining a smaller parallel parser. ## What Changed - Extracted the existing generic Git classification logic into `is_safe_git_command`. - Updated `windows_safe_commands.rs` to call that shared helper for parsed PowerShell `git` commands. - Removed the Windows-only Git subcommand safelist, including the `cat-file` allowance that was part of the reported bypass. - Added a Windows regression test that keeps PowerShell-wrapped Git commands with side-effecting options classified unsafe. - Made the full-path PowerShell test discover the installed PowerShell executable instead of depending on one hard-coded `pwsh.exe` path. ## Verification - `cargo test -p codex-shell-command rejects_git_subcommand_options_with_side_effects` - `cargo test -p codex-shell-command git_global_override_flags_are_not_safe` - `cargo test -p codex-shell-command windows_powershell_full_path_is_safe -- --nocapture` Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
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