google-gemini / google-gemini/gemini-cli
"Allow for session" only allows once for shell commands that include a path
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Description
### What happened?
The agent prompted for confirmation before running commands like `tools/autotest.py foo` or `testing/xvfb.py bar`. I select "allow for this session". The agent continues to prompt me for each instance that it wants to run the command, even if the command is character-for-character identical to one I have previously allowed.
Also, the prompt for the command is somewhat strange. For `tools/autotest.py` it asks me if I want to allow `autotest.py` to run. This is less of an issue since the full command is shown above the prompt with the correct path, but could be confusing if there was an instance of `autotest.py` in the path.
### What did you expect to happen?
I expected that once I selected "allow for this session" that the agent would be able to execute that specific command without prompting.
### Client information
Client Information
Run `gemini` to enter the interactive CLI, then run the `/about` command.
```console
> /about
╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ About Gemini CLI │
│ │
│ CLI Version 0.25.0-nightly.20260107.59a18e710-git.b08b0d7 │
│ Git Commit b08b0d7 │
│ Model auto-gemini-2.5 │
│ Sandbox no sandbox │
│ OS linux │
│ Auth Method gemini-api-key │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
```
### Login information
I use an API key to log in.
### Anything else we need to know?
I suspect this issue may be due to an inconsistency in how the shell command is comparing against the allowed command list. It may be using the command name after `normalizeCommandName` (which removes preceding directories from the command) as either the saved, allowed, command or the command used in the comparison.
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