BBEdit command line tools complain about permissions (possibly lack of Apple Events entitlement?)

[ideabucket]

BBEdit bundles a set of command line tools that can be used to invoke the app from the command line. When invoking these in a fresh rootshell install, they complain:

You must allow the application which is running `bbedit` to send events to the BBEdit application.
Please make appropriate changes in your Security & Privacy system preferences,
or contact your terminal/IDE application's developer for assistance.
bbedit: error: -1743

Based on bug reports for other terminal emulators (1, 2) it seems the launching process (rootshell in this case) needs to have the com.apple.security.automation.apple-events entitlement.

As a workaround, running

osascript -e 'tell application "BBEdit" to get properties of window 1'

will trigger the macOS prompt to authorise sending events on a per-app basis (illustrated here with Safari because I'd already used it on BBEdit)

Despite the BBEdit error message, there doesn't appear to be a way to manually add apps to the list (as of Sequoia, located in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Automation).

[kitknox]

I need to test later on some newly created VMs to make sure this is all working correctly before merging, but candidate fix is in #327

[kitknox]

OK it turns out that adding the entitlement to rootshell-helper wasn't enough, the main parent application also needed the change. Back to back launches of previous version and then test build show it going from failure to now triggering the one time permission prompt after which it works without further prompting.

[kitknox]

I went and cross referenced a number of terminal apps and we are still missing the following :

audio input, camera, Contacts, Calendar/Reminders, Location, and Photos Library access

[kitknox]

1.0.11-138 has been released with these changes. Let me know how it goes.