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Fix false-positive hardline blocks on grep quote patterns

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #110990 on 14 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and PRs address a bug where valid grep patterns containing quoted bracket classes or escaped quotes were incorrectly triggering hardline approval blocks. The fixes update shell tokenization and approval logic to correctly handle these cases.

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  • #110990 fix(approval): escaped quotes in grep patterns no longer hardline-blocked, and no longer hide a following hardline command (#96776, salvage #85922)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_hardline_escaped_quote_state.py, tools/approval_detection.py, website/docs/user-guide/security.md

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2

  • #96805 fix(approval): stop valid quoted grep patterns from being hardline-blocked · done elsewhere → e383c28, #110990
  • #96826 fix(tools): allow grep bracket-class quotes in shell tokenizer (#96776) · done elsewhere → e383c28, #110990
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#96776approvals hardline block false-positive on grep bracket class containing a quote
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