diff --git a/ui/build/paths/config.go b/ui/build/paths/config.go
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+// Copyright 2018 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package paths
+
+import "runtime"
+
+type PathConfig struct {
+	// Whether to create the symlink in the new PATH for this tool.
+	Symlink bool
+
+	// Whether to log about usages of this tool to the soong.log
+	Log bool
+
+	// Whether to exit with an error instead of invoking the underlying tool.
+	Error bool
+}
+
+var Allowed = PathConfig{
+	Symlink: true,
+	Log:     false,
+	Error:   false,
+}
+
+var Forbidden = PathConfig{
+	Symlink: false,
+	Log:     true,
+	Error:   true,
+}
+
+// The configuration used if the tool is not listed in the config below.
+// Currently this will create the symlink, but log a warning. In the future,
+// I expect this to move closer to Forbidden.
+var Missing = PathConfig{
+	Symlink: true,
+	Log:     true,
+	Error:   false,
+}
+
+func GetConfig(name string) PathConfig {
+	if config, ok := Configuration[name]; ok {
+		return config
+	}
+	return Missing
+}
+
+var Configuration = map[string]PathConfig{
+	"awk":       Allowed,
+	"basename":  Allowed,
+	"bash":      Allowed,
+	"bzip2":     Allowed,
+	"cat":       Allowed,
+	"chmod":     Allowed,
+	"cmp":       Allowed,
+	"comm":      Allowed,
+	"cp":        Allowed,
+	"cut":       Allowed,
+	"date":      Allowed,
+	"dd":        Allowed,
+	"diff":      Allowed,
+	"dirname":   Allowed,
+	"echo":      Allowed,
+	"egrep":     Allowed,
+	"env":       Allowed,
+	"expr":      Allowed,
+	"find":      Allowed,
+	"getconf":   Allowed,
+	"getopt":    Allowed,
+	"git":       Allowed,
+	"grep":      Allowed,
+	"gzip":      Allowed,
+	"head":      Allowed,
+	"hexdump":   Allowed,
+	"hostname":  Allowed,
+	"jar":       Allowed,
+	"java":      Allowed,
+	"javap":     Allowed,
+	"ln":        Allowed,
+	"ls":        Allowed,
+	"m4":        Allowed,
+	"make":      Allowed,
+	"md5sum":    Allowed,
+	"mkdir":     Allowed,
+	"mktemp":    Allowed,
+	"mv":        Allowed,
+	"openssl":   Allowed,
+	"patch":     Allowed,
+	"perl":      Allowed,
+	"pstree":    Allowed,
+	"python":    Allowed,
+	"python2.7": Allowed,
+	"python3":   Allowed,
+	"readlink":  Allowed,
+	"realpath":  Allowed,
+	"rm":        Allowed,
+	"rsync":     Allowed,
+	"runalarm":  Allowed,
+	"sed":       Allowed,
+	"setsid":    Allowed,
+	"sh":        Allowed,
+	"sha256sum": Allowed,
+	"sha512sum": Allowed,
+	"sort":      Allowed,
+	"stat":      Allowed,
+	"sum":       Allowed,
+	"tar":       Allowed,
+	"tail":      Allowed,
+	"touch":     Allowed,
+	"tr":        Allowed,
+	"true":      Allowed,
+	"uname":     Allowed,
+	"uniq":      Allowed,
+	"unzip":     Allowed,
+	"wc":        Allowed,
+	"which":     Allowed,
+	"whoami":    Allowed,
+	"xargs":     Allowed,
+	"xmllint":   Allowed,
+	"xz":        Allowed,
+	"zip":       Allowed,
+	"zipinfo":   Allowed,
+
+	// Host toolchain is removed. In-tree toolchain should be used instead.
+	// GCC also can't find cc1 with this implementation.
+	"ar":         Forbidden,
+	"as":         Forbidden,
+	"cc":         Forbidden,
+	"clang":      Forbidden,
+	"clang++":    Forbidden,
+	"gcc":        Forbidden,
+	"g++":        Forbidden,
+	"ld":         Forbidden,
+	"ld.bfd":     Forbidden,
+	"ld.gold":    Forbidden,
+	"pkg-config": Forbidden,
+
+	// We've got prebuilts of these
+	//"dtc":  Forbidden,
+	//"lz4":  Forbidden,
+	//"lz4c": Forbidden,
+}
+
+func init() {
+	if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" {
+		Configuration["md5"] = Allowed
+		Configuration["sw_vers"] = Allowed
+		Configuration["xcrun"] = Allowed
+	}
+}