portfolio-next/docs/PERMISSIONS.md

Agent permissions

Source of truth for what AI coding agents may run here. Tool files are renderings of this page: .claude/settings.json, .codex/config.toml, .codex/rules/project.rules, .gemini/settings.json. Change this page and every tool file in the same commit.

Verified commands

Run on 2026-11-09. Only worked rows may appear in a tier, a tool file, or AGENTS.md Commands.

Command	Result
bun --version	worked (1.3.14)
google-chrome --headless=new --no-sandbox --screenshot=out.png --window-size=1440,900 file://…	worked
bun install --frozen-lockfile	worked
bun run typecheck	worked
bun test, bun test test/smoke.test.ts, bun test -t 'name'	worked

Not yet run: bun run e2e (needs src/cli.ts, a later task).

Tiers

Tier	Commands	Why
Allow	git status, git diff, git log, git show, git branch --list, git rev-parse, git add, git commit, bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun run typecheck, bun test	Inspection and committing; no prompt needed.
Ask	git push, git merge, git rebase, git switch, git restore, git commit --amend, rm (any), bun add, bun remove, bun update, bun upgrade, bunx, npx	Leaves the machine, rewrites work, changes dependencies, or downloads and runs code: a human decides.
Deny	git push --force / -f / --force-with-lease, git reset --hard, git clean, git add -f / --force, git commit --no-verify / -n, rm -r / -R / -rf / -fr / -Rf / -fR / --recursive, sudo; reading .env, .env.*, secrets/**	Destroys work, skips checks, or exposes secrets.

Known gaps

• Allowlists save prompts; they are not a security boundary. Use the tool's sandbox for isolation.
• Prefix rules are bypassable: git -C dir push, flags placed later (git push origin main --force), +refspec pushes. Claude Code's :* matches at a word boundary, so each flag cluster must be listed, which is why git clean is denied whole and rm always asks.
• Once they exist, allowed test, lint and build commands run code from the repo. An agent that can edit package.json or the tests can run anything through them.
• Denying reads of .env does not stop a script that opens it itself, and git can print staged or committed secrets (git show HEAD:.env). git add -f is denied so an agent cannot stage an ignored secret; keep real secrets out of the working tree.
• Codex: no allow rules are written (in Codex allow means "run outside the sandbox"). In the workspace-write sandbox .git/ is read-only, so git add/git commit ask for escalation. approval_policy in .codex/config.toml can loosen a stricter user setting. Codex rules cannot deny file reads.
• Gemini: tools.exclude is deprecated but is the only project-level deny; there is no Ask tier (anything not allowed asks). Gemini cannot deny file reads. Ignored until the folder is trusted.