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could you file an issue for this? it’s not possible right now I don’t think, but sounds like a reasonable use case
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Can you set `protected: true` on the component resource, and `protected: false` on which child resources you want to not be protected?

You could also make the parent "resource" not a component resource (to avoid the per-resource charge), and have the must-be-protected resources and should-not-be-protected resources under that. As far as your code is concerned, there's no real difference between a resource-like class, and a true component resource.