📝 Description

This PR fixes a critical "Fail-Open" security vulnerability in the ExecTool initialization process and improves overall error handling.

Previously, if a custom deny pattern provided in the configuration contained a regex syntax error, the NewExecToolWithConfig function would log the error via fmt.Printf and execute a continue statement. This caused the system to silently discard the malformed security rule and start the agent anyway, leaving it exposed to the commands that were supposed to be blocked.

Changes introduced:

• Modified NewExecToolWithConfig and NewExecTool to return (*ExecTool, error).
• Removed the continue statement during regex compilation. If a security pattern fails to compile, the initialization now correctly returns an error, adopting a strict Fail-Closed security posture.
• Updated tool registration (e.g., NewCronTool and toolsRegistry.Register) to properly handle and bubble up the initialization error, preventing the application from starting in an insecure state.

🗣️ Type of Change

• 🐞 Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• ✨ New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• 📖 Documentation update
• ⚡ Code refactoring (no functional changes, no api changes)

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🔗 Related Issue

📚 Technical Context (Skip for Docs)

• Reference URL: N/A
• Reasoning: Security systems must default to "Fail-Closed". Silently dropping invalid blocklist rules creates a false sense of security where administrators believe a tool (e.g., netcat) is blocked, but the underlying system is completely open due to a simple typo in a configuration file.

🧪 Test Environment

Hardware: Apple Silicon (Mac M-series)
OS: macOS
Model/Provider: Generic
Channels: All

"exec": {
  "enable_deny_patterns": true,
  "custom_deny_patterns": ["\b(nc|netcat\b"]
}

🔍 Debug mode enabled
Using custom deny patterns: (nc|netca]
2026/02/25 18:22:06 Critical error: unable to initialize exec tool: invalid custom deny pattern "\b(nc|netcat\b": error parsing regexp: missing closing ): (nc|netca`
exit status 1

☑️ Checklist

• My code/docs follow the style of this project.
• I have performed a self-review of my own changes.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.