Ported from the #3051 discussion (test intent, not the old scanner):
- A confidently-parsed sed invocation whose script contains no execution
construct is a pure text transformation: the script operand and every file
operand are data. This removes the specific false positives where file names
or non-executing scripts merely containing 'git ...' were blocked.
- The GNU sed `e` command (bare or with operand) and the `s` command with the
`e` flag run text through the shell. Their literal fragments (the s
replacement, the e operand) and any piped/redirected source are scanned as
real shell source, closing the `printf x | sed 's/x/git commit --no-verify/e'`
gap reported on 2026-10-09.
- Anything the literal parser cannot confidently read (addresses it cannot
consume, -f script files, -i suffix ambiguity, unknown options, expansion
residue) falls back to today's opaque default. No behavior changes for
unmodeled launchers.
- shell-scan.js is untouched and remains the canonical scanner.
Tests: 14 focused cases ported from the #3051 litmus set; full hook suite
801/801.