in codex-cli/src/approvals.ts [333:466]
export function isSafeCommand(
command: ReadonlyArray<string>,
): SafeCommandReason | null {
const [cmd0, cmd1, cmd2, cmd3] = command;
switch (cmd0) {
case "cd":
return {
reason: "Change directory",
group: "Navigating",
};
case "ls":
return {
reason: "List directory",
group: "Searching",
};
case "pwd":
return {
reason: "Print working directory",
group: "Navigating",
};
case "true":
return {
reason: "No-op (true)",
group: "Utility",
};
case "echo":
return { reason: "Echo string", group: "Printing" };
case "cat":
return {
reason: "View file contents",
group: "Reading files",
};
case "rg":
return {
reason: "Ripgrep search",
group: "Searching",
};
case "find": {
// Certain options to `find` allow executing arbitrary processes, so we
// cannot auto-approve them.
if (
command.some((arg: string) => UNSAFE_OPTIONS_FOR_FIND_COMMAND.has(arg))
) {
break;
} else {
return {
reason: "Find files or directories",
group: "Searching",
};
}
}
case "grep":
return {
reason: "Text search (grep)",
group: "Searching",
};
case "head":
return {
reason: "Show file head",
group: "Reading files",
};
case "tail":
return {
reason: "Show file tail",
group: "Reading files",
};
case "wc":
return {
reason: "Word count",
group: "Reading files",
};
case "which":
return {
reason: "Locate command",
group: "Searching",
};
case "git":
switch (cmd1) {
case "status":
return {
reason: "Git status",
group: "Versioning",
};
case "branch":
return {
reason: "List Git branches",
group: "Versioning",
};
case "log":
return {
reason: "Git log",
group: "Using git",
};
case "diff":
return {
reason: "Git diff",
group: "Using git",
};
case "show":
return {
reason: "Git show",
group: "Using git",
};
default:
return null;
}
case "cargo":
if (cmd1 === "check") {
return {
reason: "Cargo check",
group: "Running command",
};
}
break;
case "sed":
if (
cmd1 === "-n" &&
isValidSedNArg(cmd2) &&
typeof cmd3 === "string" &&
command.length === 4
) {
return {
reason: "Sed print subset",
group: "Reading files",
};
}
break;
default:
return null;
}
return null;
}