Adrian 42c80385cd [codex] Avoid PowerShell safety parsing off Windows (#24946)
## Summary

This fixes BUGB-17567 by preventing non-Windows command safety
classification from invoking the Windows PowerShell safelist/parser
path.

Previously, `is_known_safe_command` called the Windows PowerShell
classifier on every platform. That classifier recognizes
`pwsh`/`powershell` by basename and delegates script parsing to the
PowerShell AST parser. The parser starts the supplied executable, so on
macOS/Linux a repository-controlled `pwsh` path could execute during
safety parsing before the normal sandboxed command execution path.

The change gates the Windows PowerShell classifier and module behind
`#[cfg(windows)]`. On macOS/Linux, PowerShell-looking commands are no
longer auto-approved by the Windows classifier and instead fall through
to the normal non-Windows safe-command logic.

## Validation

- `/private/tmp/codex-tools/bin/just fmt`
- `PATH=/private/tmp/codex-tools/bin:$PATH
/private/tmp/codex-tools/bin/just test -p codex-shell-command`

The focused test run passed 135 tests with 0 skipped and completed the
crate bench-smoke step.

## Notes

This PR is scoped to the BUGB-17567 macOS/Linux path. Windows still uses
the PowerShell classifier; a separate hardening follow-up should ensure
Windows safety parsing only executes a trusted PowerShell parser binary
and does not spawn the command's `argv[0]` when that path may be
repository-controlled.
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