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Summary

A session bash is started --noprofile --rcfile <daemon rc> -i, so it finds
none of its own startup files: --rcfile replaces ~/.bashrc with the
daemon's rc, which until now only installed the TERM-refresh hook. That made
bash the one shell whose startup file a loadout patch could not reach — zsh,
fish, and nushell all read theirs out of the session home, which is where
patches land — so a dest = ".bashrc" patch silently did nothing.

Since that rc is the only file a session bash reads, it now does both jobs
the other shells split between a system rc and a user one: install the hook,
then source ~/.bashrc. The argv is unchanged — --noprofile is a no-op for
a non-login shell, and --rcfile can't be dropped without losing the hook
(this build has no /etc/bash.bashrc).

~/.bashrc and nothing else, because that is what bash itself would read
here. The session shell is an interactive non-login bash — no -l, and an
argv[0] of /usr/bin/bash with no leading -, which are the only two ways
bash becomes a login shell — so shopt login_shell reports off inside it. The
login chain (~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile) belongs to a
login shell and stays unread; those files hold once-per-login setup, and
running them in a non-login shell happens nowhere else a bash user has been. A
dotfiles tree that keeps its bash setup in ~/.bash_profile reaches the
session by naming the patch dest = ".bashrc" — a patch names its own
destination, unlike the layout of a real home directory.

The hook goes in before your file runs, which leaves one sharp edge: bash's
refresh is a DEBUG trap, so a ~/.bashrc that installs its own replaces it.
Call __minimal_attach_env from yours. Documented in both places it matters.

Testing

cargo test -p minimald --lib — five new tests drive a real bash against the
generated rc: a patched .bashrc runs, and runs after the hook
(a_patched_bashrc_is_sourced_after_the_hook); a home carrying all four files
gets .bashrc exactly once and none of the others (the_login_chain_is_not_sourced);
a home carrying only a login-chain file gets nothing and still comes up
(a_login_chain_file_alone_is_not_a_bashrc); an empty home starts at $? == 0
(a_home_with_no_startup_file_starts_cleanly); and the rc orders the hook
before the user's file (the_bash_rc_installs_the_hook_before_the_users_startup_file).

scripts/session-e2e.sh — new group patches a .bashrc through a loadout and
asserts the marker over a real pty attach, against a host-native daemon:

::group::session bash sources a patched .bashrc
patched .bashrc proof OK (sourced, and after the daemon's hook)

cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy -p minimald --all-targets -- -D warnings
clean; scripts/lint-shell.sh --strict reports 44 script(s) passed shellcheck.

Checklist

  • Docs updated if behavior changed
  • BREAKING CHANGE: footer present if this is a breaking chang

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features

  • Interactive Bash sessions now source the user’s readable .bashrc after the environment setup hook; login startup files remain excluded.
  • Zsh sessions preserve normal startup processing, including .zshrc.
  • Plain sh sessions use the daemon-provided $ENV startup file.

Documentation

  • Clarified shell startup behavior, Bash --rcfile handling, loadout variables, and security considerations for startup-file patches.

Tests

  • Added coverage for startup ordering, dotfile-free sessions, patched .bashrc files, hook execution, and cleanup.

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Bash session startup now installs the attach hook before sourcing the session user’s readable .bashrc. Login startup files remain excluded. Tests and documentation cover Bash, Zsh, plain sh, loadout patches, and startup-file policy.

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Startup and loadout integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Combined Bash rc and validation
crates/minimald/src/env.rs, crates/minimald/src/session_shell.rs, scripts/session-e2e.sh
The daemon combines attach-hook installation with .bashrc sourcing. Tests verify ordering, patched .bashrc execution, login-file exclusion, missing-file startup, and cleanup.
Shell startup guidance
crates/minimald/src/session_shell.rs, docs/reference/loadouts.md
The implementation and documentation describe Bash --rcfile handling, login-file exclusion, and normal Zsh startup processing.
Interactive loadout guidance
docs/concepts/loadouts.md, docs/reference/user-policy.md
Documentation distinguishes [vars], patched startup files, plain sh’s $ENV, and code execution through patches targeting startup-read files.

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@evanspearman evanspearman changed the title fix: make bashrc run when $SHELL is seet to bash fix: make bashrc run when $SHELL is set to bash Sep 14, 2026
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bash has very specific rules on which of the the rc and profile files it reads depending on whether it is invoked as a login shell and other things. Is the way it is invoked by minimal SHELL truly supportive of your statement above: "The first readable of ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile is sourced,"

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In `@docs/concepts/loadouts.md`:
- Line 95: Update the startup-file sentence near the shell `min session attach`
reference to state that the shell started by `min session attach` sources the
patched startup file.

In `@docs/reference/loadouts.md`:
- Around line 604-607: Update the documentation guidance around the DEBUG trap
to state that any replacement trap installed by ~/.bashrc must invoke
__minimal_attach_env, or otherwise chain the daemon behavior, so TERM refresh
continues beyond startup. Apply the same trap-chaining instruction at both
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Two wording fixes from review. The concepts page read "the shell `min
session attach` gives you sources the startup file", a garden path; it
now says "the shell started by `min session attach` sources". The
reference page told a `~/.bashrc` that installs its own `DEBUG` trap to
"call `__minimal_attach_env` from yours", which reads as "from your
.bashrc" — a one-shot call at startup that leaves later attaches
unrefreshed. Both places now say the replacement trap itself must call
`__minimal_attach_env`.

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@msample — the login-chain claim was dropped in f4aad63, before the merge-ups; the PR body and docs now match the code.

The session shell is bash --noprofile --rcfile <daemon rc> -i with an argv[0] of /usr/bin/bash (no leading -), so it is an interactive non-login shell: shopt login_shell is off inside it. For that shell bash reads ~/.bashrc and nothing from the login chain, and --rcfile had been displacing even that. The daemon rc now sources exactly ~/.bashrc after installing the hook (crates/minimald/src/env.rs, ATTACH_ENV_BASH_USER_RC); ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile stay unread. Pinned by the_login_chain_is_not_sourced and a_login_chain_file_alone_is_not_a_bashrc, which run a real bash against the generated rc, plus the pty e2e group session bash sources a patched .bashrc.

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In `@docs/concepts/loadouts.md`:
- Around line 109-114: Update the startup-file statement near the “Vars”
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Three follow-ups from review:

- concepts/loadouts.md: the shell an attach starts sources the startup
  file you patched in, except plain `sh`, whose startup file is the
  daemon's `$ENV`. Say so, and point the reference link at the
  session-shell section.
- reference/loadouts.md: `~/.bashrc` is the file bash would read here on
  its own, had `--rcfile` not displaced it; the previous wording read as
  if bash were reading it directly.
- reference/user-policy.md: a patch whose `dest` is a shell startup file
  is code execution on every attach now that the session bash sources
  `~/.bashrc`, so the allow decision should weigh the `dest` as well as
  the source.

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