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SEC497lintai-ai-securitygovernancehardeningpreviewmarkdownwarn

AI markdown: shared pnpm dlx tool grant

AI-native markdown frontmatter grants `Bash(pnpm dlx:*)` tool access

Public lane
governance
Category
hardening
Provider
lintai-ai-security
Scope
per-file
Surface
markdown
Tier
preview
Severity
warn
Confidence
high
Detection
structural
Remediation
message only
How to read this lane

Shared authority and workflow policy review.

How to read this category

Least-privilege, provenance, or operational hygiene signal.

Activation Model

Preset Activation

These presets explain where this rule appears in the product experience.

governancesidecar lane

Lifecycle

Stable Lifecycle Contract

State

stable

Graduation rationale

Checks AI-native markdown frontmatter for exact mutable `pnpm dlx` authority through `allowed-tools`.

Deterministic signal basis

MarkdownSignals exact frontmatter string detection for `Bash(pnpm dlx:*)` in allowed-tools entries.

Malicious corpus
skill-uvx-dlx-pipx-allowed-tools
Benign corpus
skill-uvx-dlx-pipx-specific-safe
structured evidence required remediation reviewed
Canonical note

Structural preview rule; deterministic today, but the preview contract may still evolve.

Nearby Signals

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SEC497 / MD-PNPM-DLX-ALLOWED-TOOLS ​

SEC497 flags AI-native markdown frontmatter when allowed-tools grants the exact token Bash(pnpm dlx:*).

Why It Matters ​

pnpm dlx runs packages through a mutable on-demand runner path. Shared frontmatter should not quietly make that team-wide authority.

Trigger Shape ​

The rule triggers only when all of these are true:

  • the file is an AI-native markdown instruction surface
  • the path is not fixture-like
  • allowed-tools or allowed_tools contains the exact token Bash(pnpm dlx:*)

Clean Cases ​

These stay clean:

  • more specific project commands such as Bash(pnpm install)
  • frontmatter without Bash(pnpm dlx:*)
  • fixture-like examples under test or fixture paths

Example Trigger ​

yaml
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(pnpm dlx:*)
  - Read

Safer Example ​

yaml
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(pnpm install)
  - Read

How To Fix ​

Replace Bash(pnpm dlx:*) with a narrower reviewed command, or remove shared mutable package-execution authority from the frontmatter entirely.