## Summary
- Treat PowerShell stop-parsing token forms as unsupported in the
AST-backed command flattener.
- Add focused regressions at the parser layer and Windows command-safety
layer.
## Why
The command-safety parser lowers PowerShell AST elements into argv-like
words. Stop-parsing syntax preserves a native-command argument shape
that this lowering does not model, so these forms should stay on the
conservative unsupported path.
## Validation
- `cargo fmt --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml --all --check`
- `cargo test --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml -p
codex-shell-command`
## Why
On Windows, Codex runs shell commands through a top-level
`powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command ...` wrapper. `execpolicy` was
matching that wrapper instead of the inner command, so prefix rules like
`["git", "push"]` did not fire for PowerShell-wrapped commands even
though the same normalization already happens for `bash -lc` on Unix.
This change makes the Windows shell wrapper transparent to rule matching
while preserving the existing Windows unmatched-command safelist and
dangerous-command heuristics.
## What changed
- add `parse_powershell_command_plain_commands()` in
`shell-command/src/powershell.rs` to unwrap the top-level PowerShell
`-Command` body with `extract_powershell_command()` and parse it with
the existing PowerShell AST parser
- update `core/src/exec_policy.rs` so `commands_for_exec_policy()`
treats top-level PowerShell wrappers like `bash -lc` and evaluates rules
against the parsed inner commands
- carry a small `ExecPolicyCommandOrigin` through unmatched-command
evaluation and expose `is_safe_powershell_words()` /
`is_dangerous_powershell_words()` so Windows safelist and
dangerous-command checks still work after unwrap
- add Windows-focused tests for wrapped PowerShell prompt/allow matches,
wrapper parsing, and unmatched safe/dangerous inner commands, and
re-enable the end-to-end `execpolicy_blocks_shell_invocation` test on
Windows
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-shell-command`
## Why
`//codex-rs/shell-command:shell-command-unit-tests` became a real
bottleneck in the Windows Bazel lane because repeated calls to
`is_safe_command_windows()` were starting a fresh PowerShell parser
process for every `powershell.exe -Command ...` assertion.
PR #16056 was motivated by that same bottleneck, but its test-only
shortcut was the wrong layer to optimize because it weakened the
end-to-end guarantee that our runtime path really asks PowerShell to
parse the command the way we expect.
This PR attacks the actual cost center instead: it keeps the real
PowerShell parser in the loop, but turns that parser into a long-lived
helper process so both tests and the runtime safe-command path can reuse
it across many requests.
## What Changed
- add `shell-command/src/command_safety/powershell_parser.rs`, which
keeps one mutex-protected parser process per PowerShell executable path
and speaks a simple JSON-over-stdio request/response protocol
- turn `shell-command/src/command_safety/powershell_parser.ps1` into a
long-running parser server with comments explaining the protocol, the
AST-shape restrictions, and why unsupported constructs are rejected
conservatively
- keep request ids and a one-time respawn path so a dead or
desynchronized cached child fails closed instead of silently returning
mixed parser output
- preserve separate parser processes for `powershell.exe` and
`pwsh.exe`, since they do not accept the same language surface
- avoid a direct `PipelineChainAst` type reference in the PowerShell
script so the parser service still runs under Windows PowerShell 5.1 as
well as newer `pwsh`
- make `shell-command/src/command_safety/windows_safe_commands.rs`
delegate to the new parser utility instead of spawning a fresh
PowerShell process for every parse
- add a Windows-only unit test that exercises multiple sequential
requests against the same parser process
## Testing
- adds a Windows-only parser-reuse unit test in `powershell_parser.rs`
- the main end-to-end verification for this change is the Windows CI
lane, because the new service depends on real `powershell.exe` /
`pwsh.exe` behavior
Chris Bookholt ·
iceweasel-oai ·
Michael Bolin ·