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SEC505lintai-ai-securitygovernancehardeningstablemarkdownwarn

AI markdown: shared gh api POST tool grant

AI-native markdown frontmatter grants `Bash(gh api --method POST:*)` tool access

Public lane
governance
Category
hardening
Provider
lintai-ai-security
Scope
per-file
Surface
markdown
Tier
stable
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 GitHub API POST mutation authority through `allowed-tools`.

Deterministic signal basis

MarkdownSignals exact frontmatter string detection for `Bash(gh api --method POST:*)` in allowed-tools entries.

Malicious corpus
skill-gh-mutation-allowed-tools
Benign corpus
skill-gh-mutation-specific-safe
structured evidence required remediation reviewed
Canonical note

Structural stable rule intended as a high-precision check with deterministic evidence.

Nearby Signals

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SEC505 / MD-GH-API-POST-ALLOWED-TOOLS ​

SEC505 flags AI-native markdown frontmatter when allowed-tools grants the exact token Bash(gh api --method POST:*).

Why It Matters ​

gh api --method POST is a broad GitHub mutation path. Shared frontmatter should not quietly make remote POST mutations a default capability for every agent that loads the file.

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(gh api --method POST:*)

Clean Cases ​

These stay clean:

  • more specific read-only API commands such as Bash(gh api --method GET:*)
  • frontmatter without Bash(gh api --method POST:*)
  • fixture-like examples under test or fixture paths

Example Trigger ​

yaml
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(gh api --method POST:*)
  - Read

Safer Example ​

yaml
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(gh api --method GET:*)
  - Read

How To Fix ​

Replace Bash(gh api --method POST:*) with a narrower reviewed command, or remove shared GitHub mutation authority from the frontmatter entirely.