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SAFETY-02 allowed-tools least-privilege

Safety & Security · 15% of the grade · deterministic · applies to skills · subagents · slash commands

Deterministic — runs on every scan, no LLM or network needed.

Why it matters

A wildcard grant or bare `Bash` hands the artifact your entire toolbox — one prompt-injected instruction away from arbitrary shell commands running with your permissions. A subagent with no `tools` list is worse than it looks: it silently inherits every tool, including Bash.

How to fix it

List only the tools the work actually needs, and scope shell access to specific commands (`Bash(git status)`, `Bash(npm test)`). Never grant `*` or `all`; give every subagent an explicit `tools:` list.

Example

✗ flagged
allowed-tools: Bash
✓ passes
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Bash(git status)