any command with 'secret' doesnt get saved in history, even though no secrets exposed.

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Difficulty
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Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start in History.cs at the linked line and reproduce the behavior with echo 'secret' and echo 'secre', then inspect how history entries are filtered and persisted. Done means commands containing the word secret are retained when they do not expose an actual secret, while the existing history behavior remains intact.

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Description

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ran a command with 'secrets' and found that it doesnt get stored in history.

what idiot or bot thought it would be a good idea to do this stupid shit? it wasnt a problem before. imagine all the people's
time youve wasted bc they're left guessing why the fuck their command isnt in the history, as if they're supposed to just know.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/blob/e266ca6f67ab081476a0990e36e67ab4f2554e2b/PSReadLine/History.cs#L666

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Environment data
PS Version: 7.4.13
Steps to reproduce

run echo 'secret' and close the tab and start new and hit up arrow or look at ConsoleHost_history its not there, but not echo 'secre'

Expected behavior

command should be in history. there's no fucking secret in the command, just the string.

Actual behavior

not in history

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