I'm trying to configure VS Code's chat.tools.terminal.autoApprove setting to automatically approve specific curl commands to localhost when using GitHub Copilot agent mode. However, while simple command name matching works (e.g., "curl": true), my more specific patterns including exact string matches and regex patterns are not working. Here is an example of a command I'd like to be auto approved:
curl -X GET http://localhost:3001/api/state-machine/test-session
What works: Simple command names like "curl": true, What doesn't work: My efforts to restrict the curl command to localhost
I also used a regex tool to check my regex, and it did match the test command.
Using this command for testing:
curl -X GET http://localhost:3001/api/state-machine/test-session
I got these results:
- switching
"curl": falsetotrueworked as expected, so I know these settings are being applied "curl -X GET http://localhost:3001/api/state-machine/test-session": { "approve": true, "matchCommandLine": true },I expected this to match, but it didn't autoApprove the test command"/^curl.*localhost.*$/i": { "approve": true, matchCommandLine": true },I expected this to match, but it didn't autoApprove the test command
What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it?
Environment:
- VS Code version: [latest]
- GitHub Copilot extension: [latest]
- Agent mode: Enabled
- Platform: macOS
Note: I know my regex is overly simplistic and could be hacked. I have the regex to fix that, but wanted to use a simple regex for this question. Please critique my regex for problems that cause it to fail to match, but not issues of it being overly broad
