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Endpoint args like /user/... for gh api appear to be misclassified as filesystem absolute paths

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Description

### Describe the bug

Bug summary: endpoint args like /user/... for gh api appear to be misclassified as filesystem absolute paths (triggering directory-allow behavior) even though they are API routes; expected behavior is to treat them as plain CLI arguments (or provide a temporary command-scoped allow override).

Workaround for report: use gh api user/codespaces/secrets (no leading slash) to avoid path-like interpretation.

### Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 0.0.410.

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

At some point the command tried to run was (with GPT 5.3 Codex):

```shell
GH_PAGER=cat gh api /user/codespaces/secrets --jq '.secrets[].name' | while read -r name; do
vis=$(GH_PAGER=cat gh api "/user/codespaces/secrets/${name}" --jq '.visibility')
cnt=$(GH_PAGER=cat gh api "/user/codespaces/secrets/${name}" --jq '.selected_repositories_count // 0')
done
```

This asked for allowing access to the path /user/codespaces/secrets

### Expected behavior

Should not ask for this as it is not a path. OR: should have an option to just allow the command for now, as it is maybe hard to catch this foolproof.

### Additional context

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