Add opt-in analyze support for extensionless/unknown file types#750
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[WIP] Add support for matching files without an extension
Add opt-in analyze support for extensionless/unknown file types
May 15, 2026
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Bug Fix
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analyzeskipped files with unknown language classification, which prevented rules (includingapplies_to_file_regex) from evaluating extensionless targets likepasswd. This change adds an explicit CLI opt-in to analyze unknown file types while preserving current default behavior.What was the bug?
*.*, excluding extensionless files from discovery.How did you fix it?
--analyze-unknown-file-typestoBaseAnalyzeCommandOptions(default:false).AnalyzeCommandfrom*.*to*so files likepasswdare included."unknown"for those files.Implementation details
passwdfile withapplies_to_file_regex, asserting: