# Block Wildcard IAM Grants

Block Wildcard IAM Grants: what it does, its label on each agent, what it misses, and examples.

Catalog policy block-wildcard-iam, version 0.1.3, labelled blocks on Claude Code.

> Ask the user before running any command on this page: each one changes how their agent or repository behaves.

## What it does

Pre-commit gate for the mechanizable slice of ASI03, one line at a time: a wildcard action, resource or principal in string or list form, any quote style (JSON, YAML, Terraform, CDK, escaped JSON), whole-service wildcards on s3, iam, sts, kms and ec2 actions, Allow with an inverted key, administrator, power-user and IAM-admin managed policies, GCP owner and editor roles and public members, Kubernetes RBAC wildcards and cluster-admin, Azure wildcard actions and Owner. Only a one-line strict-JSON AWS Deny statement is exempt. Friction, not a security boundary: grants split across lines (iam-policy-scan reads those), partial wildcards, unlisted services and roles, YAML aliases or tags and runtime-built grants pass; other Deny forms and admission-webhook wildcards are refused. Escape: 'pragma: allowlist broad-privilege' on the same line, honoured at commit; at agent tool-use only when that exact line is already committed in HEAD.

## On each agent

| Agent | Label | What it does there |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Code | Blocks | Blocks on an agent's file writes and at turn end |
| Cursor | Blocks | Blocks on an agent's file writes and at turn end |
| Codex | Blocks | Blocks on an agent's file writes and at turn end. If the hook errors, the action goes through (not witnessed; the vendor's row is only partly live-run) |
| GitHub Copilot | Blocks | Blocks at turn end only. It does not check a file write when it happens. If the hook errors, the action goes through (not witnessed; the vendor's row is only partly live-run) |
| Devin | Blocks | Blocks at turn end only. It does not check a file write when it happens. If the hook errors, the action goes through (vendor docs only, not witnessed) |
| Grok | Not graded | Not graded yet for Grok |
| goose | Not graded | Not graded yet for goose |
| Antigravity | Not graded | Not graded yet for Antigravity |
| OpenHands | Not graded | Not graded yet for OpenHands |
| Kimi Code | Not graded | Not graded yet for Kimi Code |
| Factory Droid | Not graded | Not graded yet for Factory Droid |

## What it misses

This policy does not state what it misses.

## Examples from its eval suite

Refused: A staged IAM policy document grants Action star.

Allowed: A staged IAM document grants a scoped action on a named resource.

## More

- [The policy on the catalog pages](https://chock.sh/coding/policies/block-wildcard-iam/)
- [Source at the pinned catalog commit](https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock-catalog/tree/1e60d211c1bb767152c6ab0167932da06ab3a10f/agentic-security/block-wildcard-iam)


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