safety: permission policy DSL — allow/confirm/deny rule lists (closes #9)

The confirm_cmd boolean was too coarse: true interrupts every harmless
ls; false ungates everything. Most workflows want trust for read-only
ops while still gating writes/network/sudo.

New config:

    permissions = {
        allow   = { "^ls%s", "^cat%s", "^git status" },
        confirm = { "^rm%s", "^git push", "^docker%s", "^sudo%s" },
        deny    = { "^ssh%s+root@", "^curl%s+http[^s]" },
    }

Verdict order: deny > confirm > allow. First match in the chosen
category wins. Unmatched defaults to "confirm". Patterns are Lua
patterns (not regex) per PHASE0.md §3 — no compiled extensions.

Verdict behavior in the interactive CMD: loop:
  - allow   → run without prompt
  - deny    → status line, skip
  - confirm → [y/N] prompt (same UX as legacy confirm_cmd=true)

Backward compat:
  - permissions unset + confirm_cmd=true  → always confirm
  - permissions unset + confirm_cmd=false → always allow
  - permissions set                        → policy table is authoritative

Scope deliberately limited to the interactive AI-suggested CMD: gate.
Norris autonomous mode keeps its own safety.is_destructive machinery
(combining the two would double-gate or replace the LLM probe — both
non-obvious behavioral changes that belong in their own issues).
User-typed shell-routed lines (`router.classify → "shell"`) and
:exec also bypass the policy by design — those are direct user intent.

New introspection:
  :perms list           — show the configured rule lists
  :perms check <cmd>    — report verdict + matching rule (debug)

safety.classify_command is exported and unit-tested with 12 cases
covering each category, priority order (deny > allow on overlap),
and both fallback paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -71,6 +71,17 @@ return {
-- post_cmd = (os.getenv("HOME") or ".") .. "/.aish/hooks/post-cmd",
-- },
-- Issue #9: permission policy DSL for AI-suggested CMD: lines. When set,
-- supersedes shell.confirm_cmd. Patterns are Lua patterns (NOT regex)
-- per substrate invariant §3 (no compiled extensions). Priority order:
-- deny > confirm > allow; first match in the chosen category wins.
-- Unmatched commands default to "confirm". Probe with :perms check <cmd>.
-- permissions = {
-- allow = { "^ls%s", "^cat%s", "^git status", "^git diff" },
-- confirm = { "^rm%s", "^git push", "^docker%s", "^sudo%s" },
-- deny = { "^ssh%s+root@", "^curl%s+http[^s]" },
-- },
-- Phase 2 (docs/PHASE2.md): MCP server registry + tool-call policy.
-- The block is OFF by default — connect-at-startup happens only when
-- `servers` is non-empty. Uncomment + adjust per your fleet.