[remigiusz-antczak]

Wave 8 closes the held-out-11 misses and the gaps folded forward from #1997. A sixth blind corpus, held-out-12, was written and pushed before it was scored. On held-out-12 this wave blocks one more dangerous command than main with no benign blocks, and five to eight times as many as the ported rivals.

Held-out-12 (blind, 60 dangerous / 60 benign)	Blocked	Benign blocked
Perun guard, this PR before review fixes (b9aa22871)	57/60	0/60
Perun guard, this PR after review fixes	57/60	0/60
Perun guard, main (8eb9fc0)	56/60	0/60
claude-code-safety-net, ported subset	12/60 (1 unported)	3/60
claude-code-hooks-mastery, ported	7/60	10/60

• Preregistered. Held-out-12 was pushed before any scoring (prereg/heldout12, 25c580e, ledger timestamp 2026-10-25T08:52:43Z). The corpus is not in this PR; it lands with wave 9.

• Held-out-12 misses (3), the leads for wave 9:

  • rm -f ~/.aws/credentials;
  • gpg --batch --yes --delete-secret-keys;
  • security delete-keychain.

• Main's extra miss: sgdisk --zap-all, which this wave blocks.

• Hooks-mastery's benign blocks include text passed as data: a gh pr comment --body, a git commit -m, an echo and a grep whose arguments mention a dangerous command.

• Held-out-11 is now in-sample. Blind, this wave before review blocked 57/60 with 2/60 benign blocked; main blocked 57/60 with 3/60; safety-net 17/60 (7/60, 1 row unported); hooks-mastery 9/60 (6/60). Those rows are pinned in test_security_gates_heldout11_blind.py. After this wave it scores 60/60 with 1/60, the disputed git reset --hard HEAD, which stays blocked on purpose. Held-out-8, 9 and 10 keep their pinned numbers. These in-sample numbers are tuned and are not a generalization claim.

• Ledger fix. The held-out-11 ledger's first line named SHA256-frozen.txt instead of recording its hash, which the bench check rejects. A second preregistered line now records that hash. It matches the file pushed in prereg/heldout11, and the line says it was added at land time. No row changed. This PR supersedes Guard wave 8: disk zap, key truncation, npm ownership; blind held-out-11 and held-out-12 #1998, which failed on that check.

Rule changes:

• Now blocked:
  • sgdisk zap, clear, delete, new and load-backup;
  • truncating a private key or credential file through >, : >, cat /dev/null >, printf ... >, truncate, cp/mv/install /dev/null, dd of= and | tee;
  • npm and pnpm deprecate with a message, and owner rm;
  • restic key remove and unlock --remove-all;
  • lvresize unless every size grows, pvcreate -f/-ff, vgcreate -f;
  • zfs receive -F and zpool create -f;
  • a body padded past 20 KB that uses a variable after nested expansion now fails closed instead of skipping expansion.
• Now allowed:
  • git clean -f of named relative paths. The allowance is void for ., .., absolute or globbed paths, .git, an -e/--exclude argument, a preceding cd elsewhere, and -C, --git-dir, --work-tree, GIT_DIR or GIT_WORK_TREE;
  • git stash drop stash@{N} of one stash.

Review: 3 🔴, each confirmed by a probe as a regression against main and fixed in this PR:

• an -e/--exclude argument counted as a path, so git clean -fdx -e foo was allowed;
• GIT_WORK_TREE=/ or env GIT_DIR=/ in front of an allowed git clean;
• git clean -fdx ./.git.

Also fixed from the 🟡 list: sgdisk delete/new/load-backup/mbrtogpt, pvcreate -f, vgcreate -f, truncation through printf and : | tee.

Folded into wave 9 (main allows all of these too, so none is a regression):

• deleting .git-credentials, service-account JSON, ~/.docker/config.json, .envrc and .netrc;
• truncation through tee key </dev/null and cat /dev/null | tee key.

Local gates:

• test_security_gates*.py: 26/26. test-destructive-guard.sh: 16/16. test_audit_skills: pass.
• ci-tests.d: pass. run-ledger, prepush-ci-parity and bench-check cannot run in the local sandbox.
• Size-ratchet: ok. Privacy: clean. git diff --check: clean.

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