fix(registry): resolve paren/brace wraps and env-then-sudo in command safety

[wondercreatemaster]

Summary

• Fix resolveSegmentCommand so leading (/{/whitespace are skipped before reading the command word — (rm -rf /) resolves to rm instead of "".
• Loop sudo/env prefix stripping until stable so env VAR=x sudo <cmd> is handled the same as sudo env VAR=x <cmd>.
• Every shell-safety detector that depends on the resolver (hasRecursiveForceRemove, hasWorldWritableChmod, hasPipeToShellInstall, hasBase64DecodedShell) benefits without per-detector changes.

Closes #5585

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• This PR links the issue it resolves, or the no-issue maintainer-lane rationale is written in Notes.

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• No forbidden fields were added (viewCount, copyCount, popularityScore)

Quality Evidence

• Changed surface:

  • packages/registry/src/command-safety-lib.js — resolveSegmentCommand grouping skip + sudo/env loop
  • tests/command-safety-lib.test.ts — fix: resolveSegmentCommand returns an empty command for paren/brace-wrapped commands, bypassing shell-safety detectors #5585 regression cases

• Resolver change: skip leading (/{/whitespace on each prefix-loop iteration and before the final command read; re-check sudo/env after each strip instead of a fixed sudo-then-env order.

• Expected behavior / before→after:

  input	before (resolveSegmentCommand → hasRecursiveForceRemove)	after
  (rm -rf /)	"" → false	rm → true
  env FOO=bar sudo rm -rf /	sudo → false	rm → true
  sudo env FOO=bar rm -rf /	rm → true	rm → true (unchanged)
  rm -rf /	rm → true	rm → true (unchanged)

• Invariants: individual detector logic untouched; only the shared resolver changed (per issue scope).

• Screenshots: No visual impact — registry command-safety correctness only; no routes/UI.

Validation

• pnpm exec vitest run tests/command-safety-lib.test.ts tests/command-safety.test.ts tests/command-safety-posix-shell.test.ts — 98 passed
• pnpm exec vitest run tests/submission-risk-invariants.test.ts — 72 passed
• pnpm build — passed
• pnpm validate:clean — passed
• pnpm exec prettier --check on touched files — clean
• trunk check --upstream origin/main — no issues
• git diff --check / node --check packages/registry/src/command-safety-lib.js — clean

Notes

• No open or closed PR existed for fix: resolveSegmentCommand returns an empty command for paren/brace-wrapped commands, bypassing shell-safety detectors #5585 at start (timeline empty aside from labels/milestone).
• Failure modes avoided from related closes: fix(web): escape compatibility-matrix CSV header client labels #5600 (CI/required-pr-gate auto-close), fix(registry): detect PEM, Slack, and Stripe secrets in submissions #5566 (LoopOver reject). This PR: two-file focused diff, one-shot commit, local trunk + build + focused tests green before open, no post-open pushes.

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Review summary
This PR fixes resolveSegmentCommand to skip leading grouping characters ((/{) and whitespace, and loops sudo/env prefix stripping to convergence rather than a fixed order, closing a real evasion gap (#5585) where wrapping a command in parens/braces or reordering env/sudo caused detectors like hasRecursiveForceRemove to miss dangerous commands. The logic is correct: skipGroupingOpeners, skipAssignments, skipSudoPrefix, and skipEnvPrefix are looped until no strip succeeds, then a final grouping/assignment skip runs before reading the command token, matching the documented before/after table. Tests are focused, cover the new grouping and prefix-loop cases (paren, brace, nested parens, env-then-sudo, sudo-then-env, sudo-inside-paren), and the change is scoped only to the shared resolver plus its regression tests as claimed.

Nits — 4 non-blocking

• skipGroupingOpeners does not track quote state, so a quoted string beginning with '(' or '{' as its first character (e.g. an env value edge case) could theoretically be misparsed, though this is unlikely to occur at the position it's called (command-safety-lib.js resolveSegmentCommand).
• No closing-paren/brace handling is added — the resolver treats '(rm -rf /)' as 'rm' with trailing ')' likely absorbed elsewhere; consider a comment or test noting how the trailing group closer is handled by downstream arg-token parsing.
• Consider adding a test for unbalanced or deeply nested grouping (e.g. '(((rm -rf /' without closing) to confirm no infinite loop or incorrect index, since skipGroupingOpeners has no upper bound guard beyond `end`.
• Add a brief inline note on why skipGroupingOpeners doesn't need quote-awareness, for future maintainers touching this function.

Decision drivers

• ✅ Code review — No blockers (1 reviewer)
• ✅ Gate result — Passing (No configured blocker found.)

Context & advisory signals — never blocks the verdict

Signal	Result	Evidence
Linked issue	✅ Linked	#5585
Related work	✅ No active overlap found	No same-issue or scoped active PR overlap found.
Change scope	✅ 20/20	Low review scope from cached public metadata (1 linked issue).
Validation posture	✅ 25/25	PR body includes validation/test evidence.
Contributor workload	✅ 10/10	Author activity: 33 registered-repo PR(s), 21 merged, 0 issue(s).
Contributor context	✅ Confirmed Gittensor contributor	wondercreatemaster; Gittensor profile; 33 PR(s), 0 issue(s).
Improvement	✅ Minor	risk: clean · value: minor · LLM: moderate

Linked issue satisfaction

Addressed
The diff adds skipGroupingOpeners() to strip leading whitespace/paren/brace and restructures sudo/env stripping into a loop that rechecks after each strip, matching the issue's desired behavior, and includes 'Closes #5585' plus regression tests for both (rm -rf /) and env...sudo cases with before/after evidence.

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• Author: wondercreatemaster
• Role context: outside_contributor
• Public audience mode: oss maintainer
• Lane context: Repository is configured for direct PR review.
• Public profile languages: JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Java, MDX, Swift
• Official Gittensor activity: 33 PR(s), 0 issue(s).
• PR-specific overlap: none found.

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• Validation posture = whether the PR provides enough public validation/test evidence for maintainer review.
• Contributor workload = public contributor activity and cleanup pressure, not a repo-wide quality failure.
• Contributor context = public GitHub/Gittensor identity context; non-Gittensor status is not a blocker.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 96.43%. Comparing base (442a72d) to head (0efe732).
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