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Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/13047

Problem

SSH startup runs sh -l even when the account uses Bash or Zsh. A login profile that initializes Bash-specific tools such as Starship can therefore fail under dash before the existing POSIX bootstrap starts.

Change

Load profiles with the account's login shell, then execute the unchanged POSIX bootstrap with its stdin and state key intact. Preserve the existing sh fallback for csh/tcsh, which cannot combine login mode with a command. Avoid POSIX-only nested quote concatenation so Nushell can parse the outer SSH command as well.

Refreshed against main 3fa57b92a238cdd8e079af925b673b2f99618b98, preserving the intervening SSH authentication changes and Effect 4.1.2 upgrade. The regression now explicitly provides NodeCrypto.layer for Digest. Child shells receive a temporary HOME, and the Bash test launcher suppresses real profile reads while its controlled BASH_ENV verifies login mode. This addresses the outstanding profile-isolation review finding without editing user profiles.

Scope and approval

The maintainer diagnosis identifies the forced POSIX login shell as the release-client failure, and the reporter confirmed that only login invocation fails. This remains a focused fix for that existing SSH startup bug. Earlier https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13090 was closed as stale, with a request to rebuild on current main. Production changes are confined to the shared SSH launcher; no UI, wire contract, provider, or authentication policy changes are included.

The latest CodeRabbit Linked Issues assessment repeats the original issue-body hypothesis about fnm, but the maintainer's subsequent diagnosis explicitly distinguishes that dev-runner path from the release-client failure. The reporter reproduced the error only with login sh, with Starship/Zoxide Bash initialization in the profile. Changing the separate fnm activation path would expand this PR beyond the diagnosed problem; the POSIX bootstrap remains unchanged intentionally.

Verification

• Current-main control: the new regression fails with missing:<state-key> instead of loaded:<state-key>.
• Refresh control: merging main without adapting the test fails with Service not found: effect/crypto/Digest; supplying the platform crypto layer fixes it.
• vp test run packages/ssh/src: 4 files, 30 tests passed on macOS arm64. The generated remote command is exercised using real local shells and a controlled POSIX stdin script, including Bash, Zsh when installed, POSIX sh, empty SHELL, csh/tcsh fallbacks, and an optional Nushell-on-PATH case. Verified here with official Nushell 0.116.1; the old command fails there with a shell syntax error, and the revised quoting preserves the state key and stdin. The tcsh case also checks outer-shell quoting.
• Scoped lint and SSH package typecheck passed. Typecheck reports only existing Effect schema-brand suggestions.
• AI review: two completed ai-review --base origin/main rounds via Azure. Round 1 found one P2 Nushell quoting regression, reproduced with the real binary and fixed. Round 2 reported no findings. No findings were deferred. The reviewer could inspect/execute shell commands but could not run temporary-file tests in its read-only environment; the 30-test run above was performed separately by the author.

Bash test limitation: the fixture verifies that the generated command requests Bash login mode, using controlled BASH_ENV and --noprofile; it does not assert Bash's native login-profile file lookup. This avoids system profiles resetting HOME and reading the developer's real profile. The Zsh case separately verifies loading a real temporary .zprofile. CodeRabbit's suggestion to add isolated native Bash-profile lookup coverage is a possible test improvement, not evidence that the launcher fails to request login mode.

Not verified: a live remote SSH host, Windows client, or Fish installation. The Unix-shell execution regression is skipped on Windows. A local shell smoke test does not establish end-to-end network/authentication behavior. No live T3 state or user shell profiles were modified. The Nushell binary was used from a temporary directory, with no new repository dependency or system installation.

Original implementation and current refresh: GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

Fixes #13047

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Verdict: Approved at 39ca9de

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This focused SSH bug fix changes the existing remote bootstrap to use the account’s login shell while preserving the POSIX script, stdin, state key, and fallback behavior. Production impact is confined to the SSH launcher, with targeted regression coverage and no schema, default, authentication, deployment, or static-analysis changes.

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Make the `fnm` activation in `REMOTE_NODE_ENV_SCRIPT` safe under POSIX `sh`.
Alternatively, run the generated node-environment payload under Bash when Bash
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Keep the POSIX-only host path working. Add a regression test that runs the
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Walkthrough

The SSH launch command now selects an invocation based on the remote $SHELL basename. Selected shells run a login-shell command that invokes the POSIX bootstrap; other shells use the existing login sh form. Tests cover shell selection and bootstrap state-key handling.

Changes: SSH launch shell selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shell dispatch and bootstrap tests packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts, packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts	launchOrReuseRemoteServer uses sh -c to select login-shell invocation for bash, zsh, ksh, fish, and nu. Other shell names use sh -l -s --. Tests cover shell configuration behavior, startup noise, state-key extraction, reconnect command detection, and stale managed-PID handling.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SSHRunner
  participant RemoteLoginShell
  participant POSIXBootstrap
  SSHRunner->>RemoteLoginShell: Run launch command selected from $SHELL
  RemoteLoginShell->>POSIXBootstrap: Invoke sh with bootstrap state key

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#17039: The launch command selects an invocation based on the account shell. Pairing shell behavior and home-directory discovery remain unchanged.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

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Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		[#13047] Active requirement: SSH environment setup must work with the remote shell that the command selects, or fail with a clear compatibility diagnostic. Hosts with only a POSIX shell must keep work…	Make the fnm activation in REMOTE_NODE_ENV_SCRIPT safe under POSIX sh. Alternatively, run the generated node-environment payload under Bash when Bash is available, and use an explicit fallback or clear diagnostic when it is not. Keep …

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: SSH remote profiles now load through the account login shell. It matches the tunnel.ts change, which runs the launch script through sh -c with a login-shell invocation…
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the failure under dash with Bash-specific profile initialization. The Chang…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff changes two files. packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts changes only the remote launch command in launchOrReuseRemoteServer. packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts changes test helpers and adds…

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The title names the main change: SSH remote profiles now load through the account login shell. It matches the tunnel.ts change, which runs the launch script through sh -c with a login-shell invocation for bash, zsh, ksh, fish, and nu. The title follows the conventional commit form and is specific.

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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the failure under dash with Bash-specific profile initialization. The Change section explains the login-shell invocation, the sh fallback for csh/tcsh, and the Nushell quoting fix. The Scope section links issue #13047 and explains why no issue-based scope expansion is needed. The Verification section gives specific test counts, controls, and platform details, and it lists what was not verified. The author also states the agent model and harness, as the template asks. The description is complete and specific.

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The whole-PR diff changes two files. packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts changes only the remote launch command in launchOrReuseRemoteServer. packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts changes test helpers and adds login-mode regression coverage, which supports the launcher change. No UI, provider, authentication, or wire-contract changes appear in the diff.

The login-shell selection targets the same SSH remote bootstrap path that #13047 describes. It is therefore connected to the linked issue. The unmet fnm requirement is reported under the linked-issues assessment, not here. Closed #13090 is background only.

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[#13047] Active requirement: SSH environment setup must work with the remote shell that the command selects, or fail with a clear compatibility diagnostic. Hosts with only a POSIX shell must keep working.

Whole-PR diff (merge base 0bc993a to head 1093351) changes one expression in packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts (launchOrReuseRemoteServer, +9/-1). For bash, zsh, ksh, fish, and nu, the launcher now runs exec "$SHELL" -l -c "exec sh -s -- <stateKey>". Other shells keep exec sh -l -s -- <stateKey>. The launch script is still piped to sh -s, so the payload still runs under the POSIX sh (dash on Ubuntu/Debian).

REMOTE_NODE_ENV_SCRIPT is unchanged at head. It still contains eval "$(fnm env --shell bash)" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true, which the issue names as the root cause. On a dash host, Bash-shaped fnm output is still evaluated by a POSIX shell. The issue's reported errors (eval: --: not found, Syntax error: "(" unexpected) come from this path. The new login-mode change only alters which profiles load. It does not change how the fnm output is evaluated.

The new test checks that login mode is requested and that the state key is preserved. No test runs the node-environment script, or the fnm eval, under a POSIX shell with Bash-shaped fnm output.

Satisfied parts: stdin and the state key are preserved. The csh/tcsh path keeps sh -l -s -- <stateKey>. An empty or unset SHELL runs the POSIX bootstrap.

The PR description excludes the fnm path as a separate diagnosis. The issue text and its suggested direction still require the fnm activation to be POSIX-safe, or the payload to run under Bash with a fallback or diagnostic. The code at head does neither. The requirement stays unmet.

Resolution

Make the fnm activation in REMOTE_NODE_ENV_SCRIPT safe under POSIX sh. Alternatively, run the generated node-environment payload under Bash when Bash is available, and use an explicit fallback or clear diagnostic when it is not. Keep the POSIX-only host path working. Add a regression test that runs the generated script under POSIX sh with a fake fnm that emits Bash-shaped output. The test must show that the script either activates fnm correctly or reports the intended diagnostic.

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packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts: 1

140-150: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Cover Bash login-profile loading.

The Bash case gets its marker from BASH_ENV while --noprofile disables login profiles. It can pass when no login profile is read.

Assert a marker from a Bash login profile with BASH_ENV unset. Keep the fixture isolated from the developer’s profile if /etc/profile changes HOME.

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Review comment at @packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts around lines 140 - 150:
Update the Bash login-mode test fixture so it verifies a marker set by a Bash
login profile with BASH_ENV unset, rather than relying on the current BASH_ENV
startup file. Keep the test isolated from developer-specific profiles, including
handling `/etc/profile` changing HOME, while preserving the launcher login-mode
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diagnostic. Keep the POSIX-only host path working. Add a regression test that
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Evidence

On Linux with /bin/sh → dash, configured a Bash SSH account whose login profile runs eval "$(zoxide init bash)". Ordinary SSH and sh -c true succeeded; sh -l -c true produced the reported eval syntax error. In each separately built Electron client, used Settings → Environments → Add environment → SSH, entered profile-demo, and submitted.

Both captures use fresh isolated databases, the same SSH fixture, light theme and a 1100×780 viewport. The host display name is masked for privacy; errors and connection status are unchanged.

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Shared driver · Portable fixture setup · Runtime transcript

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• Other login-shell families and the unknown-shell fallback were not exercised; this reproduction covers Bash accounts on Linux.
• Release archive installation was not exercised; each development desktop launched its checkout's built server entry.