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`abctl configure bobshell` printed a coming-soon notice and exited 0. It was the only configure agent with no verbs, and the reason was structural: configure claude-code works by writing ~/.claude/settings.json, and Bob Shell has no settings file. But Bob Shell is a shell command, so it has a second persistence surface those claims overlooked -- the user's own rc file. An alias makes plain `bob` route through Cortex in every future interactive shell, the same outcome configure claude-code enable produces for `claude`, reached by a different mechanism. Adds enable | disable | status with claude-code's flag conventions and exit codes, managing a marker-guarded alias in ~/.zshrc or the bash equivalent: # >>> cortex abctl (bobshell) >>> alias bob='/abs/path/abctl exec -- \bob' # <<< cortex abctl (bobshell) <<< The subcommand is bobshell but the alias is bob, because the word does two unrelated jobs: bobshell is the agent name the user configures, and bob is both what they type afterwards and what is on their PATH. Renaming the latter would alias a command nobody runs and wrap a binary that does not exist. The backslash in \bob suppresses alias expansion on that one word, so the alias reaches the real PATH binary instead of calling itself -- verified in both zsh and bash. Largely a port of install.sh's offer_path_setup, which already faces this question for its PATH line: rc detection from $SHELL, marker-guard idempotency, consent on /dev/tty, backup, and the closing "applies to new shells" note. Its own comment says it matches what claude-code enable does to settings.json, so the two halves of one idea stop being expressed in two languages. Details worth keeping from the shell version, plus one it lacked: - The bash arm prefers a startup file that already exists over creating one the shell may never read, since which file bash reads depends on the platform and on login-ness. An unknown shell is refused rather than guessed at, and the error names --rc as the way through. - The backup is written once and never overwritten. An rc file is accreted by hand over years, so replacing the pristine copy with one this command already edited loses the only version the user wrote. install.sh's unconditional cp has exactly that bug. - The file's existing mode is preserved; an rc file is commonly 0644 and silently tightening it to 0600 is a change nobody asked for. Three places claimed persistence needs a settings file and so "nothing else" could have it -- cmd_configure.go's usage, README.md, and cmd_exec.go's header. This feature falsifies all three, so they are corrected here rather than left contradicting the code: persisting needs some durable surface the agent reads at startup, and Codex and OpenCode are the ones that have none. cmd_exec.go's "nothing is exported to your shell and no file is modified" is untouched -- it is scoped to exec's child process and remains true. The unknown-agent error listed an agent name while rejecting it, and its test asserted the valid set against the whole of stderr -- which also carries the usage block, whose agent table names every agent. So the assertion passed over a stale list. It now checks the error line alone, verified by reintroducing the bug and watching it fail. Help and docs say Bob Shell (the CLI) where they mean the thing being configured. inferenceparser's bobPath and session's BobSessionHeader keep saying IBM Bob: they name the web UI whose traffic Cortex parses, a different referent. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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Self-review (cannot APPROVE own PR — verdict would be APPROVE).
Clean, well-tested feature addition. The code is carefully written with strong attention to edge cases (idempotency, backup-once, mode preservation, unterminated blocks, foreign aliases). 14 test functions / 24 subtests cover the important cases thoroughly, all using t.TempDir() for isolation.
Author: esnible (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go, Docs
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 1 commit, all signed-off: yes
CI status: Go CI (authbridge abctl) passes; Go CI (authlib) failure is unrelated (different module, Test step failure in authlib, not authbridge)
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| // is what catches that class of error. | ||
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| // bob has left this set — it configures persistently now, via the shell startup file |
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nit: Stale file name — the test file is cmd_bobshell_test.go, not cmd_bob_test.go.
| // bob has left this set — it configures persistently now, via the shell startup file | |
| // (TestBob* in cmd_bobshell_test.go). Codex and OpenCode read only the process |
| case "bob": | ||
| fmt.Fprint(stdout, comingSoon("Bob", "bob", "IBM Bob")) | ||
| return 0 | ||
| case "bobshell": |
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suggestion: The old configure bob spelling now returns "unknown agent" rather than a deprecation notice pointing to bobshell. Since the old command printed a coming-soon message, users who tried it before may have bob in their shell history or notes. A one-line redirect like the claude-code deprecation in main.go would smooth the transition:
case "bob":
fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "abctl: 'bob' was renamed to 'bobshell'. Use: abctl configure bobshell %s\n", strings.Join(args[1:], " "))
return 2Not blocking — the old command was non-functional (coming-soon only), so breakage is minimal.
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Took the useful half in 3f73000, but not as a working alias.
configure bob now errors specifically instead of generically:
abctl: "bob" is now "bobshell"; run `abctl configure bobshell status`
Still exit 2. The abctl claude-code precedent in main.go:114 keeps the old spelling working because it names a command that really worked and may sit in someone's script. This one only ever printed a coming-soon notice, so keeping it alive would preserve a name nothing could have depended on — whereas a wrong guess with a right answer deserves better than the generic list. Covered by a test that pins exit 2 and the absence of "unknown agent".
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Careful, well-argued work — the marker-guarded block, the backup-once rule and the
refuse-rather-than-guess shell detection are all the right calls, and the prose
explaining why is better than most of this repo. I ran a mutation gate over the 14
new assertions rather than only reading them, and that is where the problem is: 5 of
14 mutants survived, and three of them break the PR's three headline guarantees
(backup-written-once, decline-writes-nothing, status-reports-enabled). Each of those
guarantees has a test named after it that cannot fail. One real behavioural defect too:
the enable/disable round trip is not byte-identical when the rc file ends with a blank
line, which the file's own header comment forbids twice.
Method: green control cmd/abctl EXIT:0 (needs env -u SSL_CERT_FILE), then 14
single-line mutations of cmd_bobshell.go, each run against the owning module only and
restored afterwards. Full log and the reusable harness:
/tmp/rossoctl-review/1120/ (findings.md, mutate.py).
| Mutation | Verdict |
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bobShellAliasIn always returns "" |
SURVIVED |
backup written unconditionally (i.e. install.sh's bug) |
SURVIVED |
single-quote guard in abctlPath deleted |
SURVIVED |
| the "different abctl" check inverted | SURVIVED |
| blank separator on append deleted | SURVIVED |
| 9 others (backslash, mode, off-by-one, idempotency, bash precedence, decline, gutted block, unterminated block, blank reclaim) | killed |
Author: esnible (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go production (4 files), Go tests (2), Docs (README.md)
Risk shapes found: PRESENCE-VS-VALUE, DUAL-PATH-PARITY, SELF-CONSISTENCY, DERIVED-CONSTANT, GEOMETRY-INVARIANT, RENAME
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Mutation gate: 14 mutated, 9 killed, 5 SURVIVED
Norms extracted / violations: 12 / 2
Body claims checked: 3 verified, 0 refuted — the roster test does genuinely fail when
the stale bob spelling is reintroduced (both assertions fire); cmd_exec.go's "nothing
is exported to your shell and no file is modified" is indeed untouched and still true
(cmd_exec.go:81); the pre-existing TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStart... failure reproduces
on the base commit and is the known inherited-SSL_CERT_FILE bug, not yours.
Sections skipped as CI-covered: no Python/Helm/Shell/YAML in the diff; gofmt/vet/lint green.
Commits: 1, all signed-off: yes
CI: failing — Go CI (authlib),
TestHandleUsage_LedgerBackedModelSeriesDisclosesWhatItLeavesOut in
authbridge/authlib/sessionapi. That module is not in this diff and the same check is
success on main, so it is not yours — but it needs a re-run before merge.
Already noted in your own pass and not repeated inline: the stale cmd_bob_test.go
reference at cmd_configure_test.go:58.
| if code := bobShellEnable(rc, testAbctl, true, &out, &errb); code != 0 { | ||
| t.Fatalf("re-enable: exit = %d, want 0", code) | ||
| } | ||
| if got := readFile(t, rc+".bak"); got != original { |
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must-fix · class UNFAILABLE-ASSERTION · sweep below
This test cannot fail. I removed the backup-once guard in writeRC — exactly the install.sh bug the PR body calls out — leaving an unconditional os.WriteFile(bak, cur, mode), and the whole suite stayed green.
The sequence defeats its own assertion. enable → disable → enable restores the file to original byte-for-byte (your round-trip guarantee, working as designed), so by the time the third write happens cur == original and the unconditional overwrite writes the original content back. The clobbered intermediate — the backup holding # pristine\n\n<block> right after the disable — is never observed.
Cheapest fix, no new surface: assert the backup immediately after the disable, while it is the intermediate state that would be wrong:
if code := bobShellDisable(rc, true, &out, &errb); code != 0 {
t.Fatalf("disable: exit = %d, want 0", code)
}
// The second write must not have touched the backup.
if got := readFile(t, rc+".bak"); got != original {
t.Fatalf("disable overwrote the backup: got %q, want %q", got, original)
}Worth keeping the existing post-re-enable check too — it just cannot be the only one.
Sweep before fixing (this class has 3 more instances in this file, see the other comments): for every .bak / state assertion, ask whether an earlier step in the same test restores the state the assertion means to observe.
grep -n '\.bak' authbridge/cmd/abctl/*_test.go
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Fixed in 3f73000 — and you were right that the sequence defeated its own assertion. The backup is now asserted immediately after the disable, while the file holds the block and a clobbered backup would visibly hold it too. Kept the post-re-enable check as a second assertion.
Verified by mutation: with the guard removed and os.WriteFile(bak, cur, mode) unconditional, the suite now fails — it was green before.
| if !found { | ||
| return lines, false | ||
| } | ||
| if start > 0 && strings.TrimSpace(lines[start-1]) == "" { |
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must-fix · class SELF-CONSISTENCY
The reclaim is unconditional, but the line it reclaims is not always ours — so the round trip is not byte-identical, which this file forbids twice (:20-22 "Everything outside them is the user's, and a rewrite must leave it byte-identical", and cmd_bobshell_test.go:117 "must survive verbatim").
Measured on this branch:
orig = "# mine\n\n"
afterEnable = "# mine\n\n# >>> cortex abctl (bobshell) >>>\n…"
back = "# mine\n" ← the user's blank line is gone
replaceBobShellBlock:272 adds the separator blank only when the last line is non-blank, but this reclaim removes a preceding blank always. When the file already ended blank, enable adds nothing and disable eats the user's line. The existing round-trip fixture ends in alias ll='ls -l'\n, so it can never reach this.
Verified fix — delete both halves and the round trip becomes unconditional identity:
// replaceBobShellBlock: drop
- if len(out) > 0 && strings.TrimSpace(out[len(out)-1]) != "" {
- out = append(out, "")
- }
// removeBobShellBlock: drop
- if start > 0 && strings.TrimSpace(lines[start-1]) == "" {
- start--
- }I ran that combination: suite EXIT:0, zero failures. It costs no test churn because nothing asserts the separator exists — deleting the add alone was one of the surviving mutants (M10). The block then sits directly after the last line, which is a small cosmetic price for an invariant you state twice.
Then add the case that would have caught it, as a row on the existing test rather than a new Test func:
for _, original := range []string{
"# my rc\nexport EDITOR=vim\n\nalias ll='ls -l'\n",
"# mine\n\n", // already ends blank — the case that regressed
"# mine", // no trailing newline
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Fixed in 3f73000. Reproduced your measurement exactly before changing anything:
orig="# mine\n\n" → back="# mine\n"
Deleted both halves as you suggested, so the round trip is unconditional identity. Agreed on the reasoning: "remove the blank before the block" cannot distinguish the one enable added from one the user already had, so symmetry was never reachable — adding nothing is.
TestBobShellEnable_PreservesSurroundingContent is now a table over the tail shapes (ends with content / ends blank / no trailing newline / empty). Confirmed load-bearing: reintroducing both halves fails on the "# mine\n\n" row with exactly the diff above.
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| } | ||
| var out, errb bytes.Buffer | ||
| if code := bobShellEnable(rc, testAbctl, false, &out, &errb); code != exitDeclined { |
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This test hangs for anyone running go test from a terminal — which is what the PR body's verification section shows being run.
The comment's premise is wrong: confirm opens /dev/tty (cmd_claudecode.go:707), and /dev/tty resolves to the session's controlling terminal whenever go test is launched from an interactive shell. go test does not detach the test binary from it.
Measured, same compiled test binary each time:
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no pty (< /dev/null, this sandbox, CI) |
--- PASS in 0.00s |
under a pty (script -q /dev/null …) |
never completed, killed at 25s |
TestBobShellEnable_PreservesMode under the same pty harness |
--- PASS, immediate |
So the pty harness is not the cause — the blocking read on /dev/tty is. And if the developer types y, the test does not just hang, it fails: the file gets written and the exit code is 0, not exitDeclined.
cmd_claudecode_test.go never drives confirm() from a test for this reason — it exercises the injectable half, confirmFrom(strings.NewReader(...), &out) at :252, and TestClaudeCodeDeclineUsesADistinctExitCode only checks that exitDeclined does not collide with 0/1/2. This is the first test in the package to depend on a tty being absent.
Smallest seam that keeps the behaviour testable:
// cmd_bobshell.go (or alongside confirm, shared with claude-code)
var confirmFn = confirm // swapped in tests
- if !yes && !confirm(stdout) {
+ if !yes && !confirmFn(stdout) {then in the test set confirmFn = func(io.Writer) bool { return false } (with t.Cleanup to restore) and keep every assertion you already have. That makes the decline path a real assertion instead of an artefact of the environment, and it stops being sensitive to how the suite is invoked.
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Fixed in 3f73000, and the premise was wrong exactly as you say — my confirmFrom comment asserts "a test process has no controlling terminal", which was only true of the sandbox I measured in.
script could not allocate a pty here, so I probed the underlying claim directly with pty.fork():
no pty: NO TTY: open /dev/tty: device not configured
under pty: OPENED /dev/tty -> confirm() would BLOCK on read here
So a developer running go test from a terminal hits a blocking read. Added confirmFn as the seam, kept every existing assertion, and added a --yes-does-not-prompt case. The test no longer depends on how the suite is invoked.
| if code := bobShellStatus(rc, &out); code != 0 { | ||
| t.Errorf("exit = %d, want 0", code) | ||
| } | ||
| if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "enabled in "+rc) { |
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must-fix · class PRESENCE-VS-VALUE + UNFAILABLE-ASSERTION
"enabled in <rc>" is a substring of every message bobShellStatus can print, so this assertion cannot tell the four states apart:
:427not enabled in %s→ containsenabled in <rc>✅ passes:424not enabled in %s (the Cortex block is there but has no alias line)→ passes:437enabled in %s, but the alias names a different abctl…→ passes:442enabled in %s→ passes
Two surviving mutants confirm it: making bobShellAliasIn return "" unconditionally, and inverting the :436 different-abctl check, both left the suite green.
Worse, this subtest never reaches the branch it is named for. testAbctl is /opt/abctl/abctl and abctlPath() returns the test binary, so :436 always sees a mismatch. Actual output here:
alias bob='/opt/abctl/abctl exec -- \bob'
enabled in /var/…/001/.zshrc, but the alias names a different abctl than this one (/var/…/abctl.test)
Re-run `abctl configure bobshell enable` to point it here.
The happy path at :442 is asserted by no test in the suite.
Two changes:
- Anchor the assertion so the negative cannot satisfy it — e.g. assert the last line exactly, or add
if strings.Contains(out.String(), "not enabled") { t.Errorf(...) }alongside. - Reach the success branch by making the alias name the running binary:
self, err := abctlPath()
if err != nil {
t.Skip("no executable path") // or t.Fatal — see note
}
if code := bobShellEnable(rc, self, true, &out, &errb); code != 0 { … }
// now :442 is the branch under test, and "but the alias names a different abctl"
// must NOT appear.(t.Fatal is better than t.Skip — os.Executable not working would itself be worth failing on.)
Keeping the mismatch case as its own subtest is worth it too, since that is the branch with the actionable "Re-run …" advice.
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Fixed in 3f73000. Both parts confirmed: "enabled in <rc>" is a substring of "not enabled in <rc>", and the subtest never reached :442 because abctlPath() under go test is the test binary, so a literal path always took the mismatch branch.
Now anchored on the last line, and the alias names the running binary (t.Fatal on abctlPath error, per your note) so the success branch is the branch under test. Split out two more subtests: the mismatch branch with its "Re-run" advice, and a truncated alias that must not read as enabled.
Both mutants you cite are now killed.
| // rewrites it, and saying so here is cheaper than debugging it from the | ||
| // "command not found" the alias itself would produce. | ||
| if self, serr := abctlPath(); serr == nil { | ||
| if want := strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimSuffix(bobShellBlock(self), "\n")); !strings.Contains(want, alias) { |
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suggestion · class DUAL-PATH-PARITY
This is a substring test standing in for equality: it asks whether the rendered 3-line block contains the alias line found in the file. A truncated or partially hand-edited alias line is a substring of the full block, so it reports as matching — e.g. a file holding alias bob='/opt/abctl/abctl exec -- \bo (closing quote lost) is Contains-true against the correct block and status says all is well, while the shell itself sees a broken alias.
Comparing the alias lines directly says what you mean and is one line shorter:
if want := strings.TrimSpace(bobShellAliasLine(self)); alias != want {where bobShellAliasLine is the middle line bobShellBlock already builds — factoring it out also gives the tests a non-self-referential literal to compare against, instead of re-deriving the expected line from the same function under test.
Inverting this condition was a surviving mutant, so neither direction of this branch is currently covered — see the comment on cmd_bobshell_test.go:267.
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Adopted in 3f73000 — factored out bobShellAliasLine and compare by equality. The truncated-alias case is now a subtest, since that is precisely what Contains let through.
| // the quoting mid-word. Escaping it is possible ('\'') but the result is a path | ||
| // no one should have and a line no one can read; refuse and let --rc-style | ||
| // manual setup handle the exotic case. | ||
| if strings.Contains(abs, "'") { |
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suggestion · class DUAL-PATH-PARITY
Deleting this guard entirely left the suite green (surviving mutant M8) — it is a correct guard with no test. Worth one, because the failure it prevents is a malformed line in the user's rc file rather than an error they can see:
func TestAbctlPath_RefusesAPathWithASingleQuote(t *testing.T) { … }That needs the quoting rule to be reachable without os.Executable — extracting the strings.Contains(abs, "'") check into a tiny validateAliasPath(abs string) error makes it directly testable and keeps abctlPath as the thin resolver.
Related, same function: the exec.LookPath("abctl") fallback at :183 can resolve a different abctl than the one running, and that path then gets baked into a persistent alias — which is the outcome :174-175 says must not happen ("a later PATH change must not silently repoint it at a different abctl"). It is a genuinely unreachable-in-practice branch, so a comment noting the trade-off would do; no test needed.
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Both done in 3f73000. Extracted validateAliasPath and added TestValidateAliasPath; deleting the guard now fails the suite. Added the comment on the exec.LookPath fallback noting it can resolve a different abctl than the one running, and why that is accepted there.
| Cortex need not be running for any of this: the alias resolves the proxy address | ||
| when you run bob, not now. | ||
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nit · class SELF-CONSISTENCY
Two small drifts between this usage text and the code below it:
- The documented exit set omits 2, which
runBobShellreturns three times — no args (:81), flag-parse failure (:100), unknown action (:132) — and which the tests assert (cmd_bobshell_test.go:357,:370).cmd_claudecode.go:201has the same omission, so this is inherited rather than new; still, one clause fixes it here:2 a usage error. --yesis registered on the flag set for every action includingstatus(:97), but the synopsis at:36listsstatus [--rc PATH]only. Either document it or leave it — just noting the two disagree.
Neither blocks anything.
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Both fixed in 3f73000: added 2 a usage error to the documented exit set, and scoped --yes in the flag list to enable/disable, noting status never prompts. (Left cmd_claudecode.go:201 alone — same omission, but not this PR.)
| t.Errorf("alias not written:\n%s", first) | ||
| } | ||
| // The backslash is load-bearing: without it the alias calls itself. | ||
| if !strings.Contains(first, `\bob`) { |
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nit · class UNFAILABLE-ASSERTION
Subsumed by the assertion four lines above: "alias bob='"+testAbctl+" exec -- \\bob'" already contains \bob, so if :93 passes this cannot fail, and if :93 fails this adds nothing. The backslash is load-bearing — dropping it from bobShellBlock was correctly killed by :93 — so the coverage is real; it is just this line that is dead weight.
Dropping it, or replacing it with the thing :93 cannot see (that the line contains no unescaped bob that would recurse), would both be improvements over restating a passing check.
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Half right, and worth flagging because I followed it as written first and it cost coverage.
You are correct that the line was subsumed as it stood. But when I dropped it, the remaining assertion compared against bobShellAliasLine(testAbctl) — the function under test. So removing the backslash from the rendered line moved both sides of the comparison together, and the mutant survived:
backslash dropped: SURVIVED
Your suggested alternative is what fixes it — "the thing :93 cannot see". I took the independent-literal form:
if want := `alias bob=
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Adds abctl configure bobshell enable/disable/status, persisting a bob shell alias via a marker-guarded block in the user's rc file — mirroring configure claude-code's pattern. Solid test coverage overall (byte-identical fixtures, explicit backslash-escaping checks), but two edge cases around blank-line preservation and backup-skip logic break the tool's own stated round-trip and backup guarantees.
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Areas reviewed: Go, Docs, Tests, Security
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Commits: 1, signed-off: yes
CI status: 1 failing check — Go CI (authlib) fails on TestHandleUsage_LedgerBackedModelSeriesDisclosesWhatItLeavesOut in authbridge/authlib/sessionapi, a file this PR does not touch. That test is unmodified on upstream/main, and main's own CI passed ~2 hours before this run — pre-existing/flaky, not caused by this PR (same failure also appears on #1117).
| if !found { | ||
| return lines, false | ||
| } | ||
| if start > 0 && strings.TrimSpace(lines[start-1]) == "" { |
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must-fix: removeBobShellBlock unconditionally strips the blank line immediately preceding the marker block, without checking whether enable actually added it.
If the rc file already ended with a blank line before Bob Shell was ever enabled (e.g. "a\nb\n\n"), running enable --yes then disable --yes permanently drops that pre-existing blank line — violating the tool's own guarantee that content outside the markers survives byte-identical. Not caught by TestBobShellEnable_PreservesSurroundingContent, whose fixture doesn't end in a blank line.
| mode = fi.Mode().Perm() | ||
| } | ||
| bak := path + ".bak" | ||
| if _, serr := os.Stat(bak); os.IsNotExist(serr) { |
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must-fix: writeRC skips writing <rc>.bak if that path already exists, with no check that abctl created it.
If the user already has an unrelated ~/.zshrc.bak before ever running bobshell enable (common with dotfile managers or manual edits), the very first enable silently overwrites ~/.zshrc directly while claiming "a copy is kept as %s.bak" — contradicting both the printed message and the --help text. TestBobShellEnable_BackupWrittenOnce only exercises repeated cycles where abctl itself created the .bak, so this precondition is untested.
| case "bash": | ||
| // bash reads .bash_profile for login shells on macOS and .bashrc elsewhere, | ||
| // and .profile when neither exists — so prefer whichever file is already | ||
| // there over creating one the shell may never read. |
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suggestion: bash rc selection prefers .bash_profile over .bashrc whenever both exist, regardless of OS — but on Linux, a login .bash_profile with no source ~/.bashrc line is often not read by the interactive shell the user actually opens. Worth checking whether the candidate file sources .bashrc before preferring it, or gating the preference to darwin. (Asserted as intended by an existing goos:"linux" test case, so flagging for reconsideration rather than as a bug.)
| // reasoning as resolveServicePaths, minus its sibling search — this binary IS | ||
| // the one wanted, so os.Executable is the first and best answer rather than a | ||
| // hint about where a companion lives. | ||
| func abctlPath() (string, error) { |
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suggestion: abctlPath uses os.Executable(), which the stdlib docs note isn't guaranteed stable after the binary moves and may resolve through a symlink. An install layout using a "current" version symlink would embed a path that breaks silently after an in-place upgrade removes the old version directory — status's drift check only catches the running binary's path changing, not the recorded path being deleted.
…ip identical
Review ran a mutation gate over the new assertions rather than only reading them:
5 of 14 mutants survived, and three of those broke headline guarantees that each
had a test named after them. One real behavioural defect came out of it too.
The defect: the enable/disable round trip was not byte-identical when the rc file
already ended with a blank line. enable appended a separator blank only when the
last line was non-blank, but disable reclaimed a preceding blank unconditionally,
so a file ending "# mine\n\n" came back as "# mine\n" -- the user's own line,
eaten. The file's header forbids exactly that, twice. Both halves are gone rather
than made symmetric: "remove the blank before the block" cannot distinguish the
one enable added from one the user already had, so the only way to get
unconditional identity is to add nothing. Nothing asserted the separator existed
(deleting the add alone was a surviving mutant), and the block now sits against
the preceding line -- a cosmetic price for an invariant stated twice.
The round-trip test is now a table over the shapes a real rc tail takes -- ends
with content, ends blank, no trailing newline, empty -- because the single fixture
ending in a non-blank line could not reach the broken case.
Three tests could not fail:
- Backup-written-once asserted the backup after enable -> disable -> enable, but
the round trip restores the original byte-for-byte, so an unconditional copy
wrote the original content back and the assertion passed over the bug it was
named for. It now asserts after the disable, the one moment a clobbered backup
would visibly hold the block.
- Status asserted Contains("enabled in <rc>"), which is a substring of "not
enabled in <rc>" and so matched all four verdicts. Anchored on the last line
now. That subtest also never reached the branch it was named for: status
compares against abctlPath(), which under `go test` is the test binary, so a
literal alias path always took the "different abctl" branch and the happy path
was asserted by nothing. It aliases the running binary, and the mismatch branch
and a truncated-alias case are their own subtests.
- The decline path relied on confirm() finding no terminal. confirm opens
/dev/tty, which resolves to the developer's terminal whenever `go test` runs
from an interactive shell -- so that test blocked on a read there and passed
only in a sandbox with no tty, asserting the environment rather than the code.
Verified with a pty: the probe opens /dev/tty and would block. confirmFn is now
an injectable seam, and --yes-does-not-prompt is covered too.
Two guards had no test at all. The single-quote check in abctlPath is extracted as
validateAliasPath so it is testable without a binary at an exotic path, and status
now compares alias lines by equality via a factored-out bobShellAliasLine: the old
Contains against the whole rendered block reported a hand-truncated alias as
matching while the shell saw a broken one.
Dropping the redundant Contains(`\bob`) check, as the review suggested, turned out
to remove real coverage: every other assertion compares against bobShellAliasLine,
so dropping the backslash moved both sides together and survived. That one
assertion spells the expected line out as an independent literal instead.
All five surviving mutants are now killed, and the four re-checked killed ones
still are.
Also: `configure bob` gets a redirect naming bobshell instead of the generic
unknown-agent error -- not accepted as a working alias the way `abctl claude-code`
is, since that spelling names a command that really worked and may sit in a
script, whereas this one only ever printed a coming-soon notice. Plus the exit-2
clause the usage text omitted, the --yes scope, and a stale test-file name.
Unrelated: the failing `Go CI (authlib)` check is
TestHandleUsage_LedgerBackedModelSeriesDisclosesWhatItLeavesOut in
authbridge/authlib/sessionapi. That module is untouched by this branch and the
same check is success on the base commit.
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Addressed in 3f73000Thanks — the mutation gate earned its keep. All 5 surviving mutants are killed, and the behavioural defect is fixed. Re-run of your gate
The defectReproduced your measurement before touching anything, then deleted both halves as you suggested, so the round trip is unconditional identity. The three unfailable tests
One correctionYour nit on the redundant Also
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- Around line 370-374: Update writeRC to resolve an existing symlinked rc path
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…rect pasteable Four defects from review, each reproduced before being fixed and each now pinned by a test that fails when the fix is reverted. An rc file with no trailing newline left the end marker as an incomplete line. Two things followed, and neither was cosmetic: the next line appended to the file fused onto the marker and was commented out by it, and disable could no longer match the marker -- so it reported success, exited 0, and left the live alias in the file. writeRC now terminates the line whenever our block is the new tail. That is a deliberate exception to the byte-identical round trip the header promises, so the header says so: adding the byte the file was missing is the lesser harm, and disable still restores everything else exactly. os.Rename over a symlinked rc file replaced the link with a regular file. An rc file is very often a link into a dotfiles repo, so the alias landed in a file the repo did not track, the repo's own copy never got it, and later dotfile edits silently stopped reaching the shell -- with the backup beside the link rather than the target. writeRC resolves the link before the backup so both land on the real file. writeSettings does not do this because settings.json is rarely symlinked; rc files are not. A file holding exactly one newline round-tripped to zero bytes. It is one empty line, which joins to the same "" an empty file does, so testing the joined body suppressed the newline for both. The test is len(lines), which distinguishes them. The bob->bobshell redirect printed a command ending in a space with no verb for the bare `abctl configure bob`, which on paste just reprints usage. That is the likeliest input of all, since the notice this replaced took no verb, so it got the one suggestion that did not work. It now defaults to status, the verb that changes nothing. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
All four fixed in ca596d4Every one reproduced first, and every fix is pinned by a test that fails when the fix is reverted. 1. Unterminated end markerConfirmed exactly as described, and the second half is the worse half. Sourcing in real bash after an append:
Good catch on 2. Symlinked rc replacedReproduced: Your point about 3. One-newline file1 byte → 0. The diagnosis was precise: 4. Bare
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…maged fence The must-fix is one the previous commit created. writeRC follows a symlinked rc file, so on ~/.zshrc -> ~/dotfiles/zshrc the backup lands beside the target while enable still printed the link's path. Someone told where the only pristine copy of a file they accreted by hand now lives would look there and find nothing. Both enable and disable now report the path that is actually written, and say so before the write when the two differ. The notice is gated on the rc file itself being a link, not on the resolved path differing: EvalSymlinks resolves parent directories too, so a plain /tmp/rc comes back /private/tmp/rc on macOS, and announcing that as a link -- or naming the backup by it -- is true and unhelpful. A dangling symlink was still destroyed, which is the precise failure the symlink fix targets reached by another route: EvalSymlinks errors on a broken link, so the path stayed the link and os.Rename replaced it with a regular file. A dotfiles repo not yet cloned, or stow/chezmoi mid-setup, is a common state rather than a corrupt one, so resolveRC falls back to os.Readlink and writes the file the shell would have read. A hand-damaged end marker was the worse half of a broken fence. status reported "not enabled" while the shell had a live alias, and disable printed an empty removal body, exited 0, and left that alias in the file. The start-marker case now claims the contiguous run of lines this command could itself have written and stops at anything else. That fix is easy to get wrong in a way that matters more than the bug. A first attempt scanned the whole file for `alias bob=` and so deleted an alias the user wrote themselves -- exactly the property the markers exist to guarantee, and the header comment promises. Bounding the span to lines adjacent to a marker we did write keeps it, and a test pins it. Also: a from-scratch rc file is created 0644 rather than 0600, since the rule about not silently tightening an existing file's mode applies to the one we make; a --rc that names a directory is a usage error at exit 2, the code --help documents, instead of a raw errno at exit 1; the .tmp is removed when the rename fails, because after the resolve it sits in the user's dotfiles repo where an untracked file may get committed; --yes is no longer accepted for status, which never prompts, making the help text's scope true; and the bob->bobshell suggestion quotes each element through the shellQuote exec already uses, so `--rc "my rc file"` survives being pasted. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
All eight addressed in a6b63b9The MUST FIX was mine, introduced by the symlink fix one round earlier — the behaviour was right and the message was stale, exactly as diagnosed. MUST FIX — backup pathBoth Gated on Suggestion 1 — dangling symlinkReproduced exactly: exit 0, Suggestion 2 — damaged end markerThis was the most serious of the seven, so I treated it as a fix rather than a nicety: Worth flagging, because it nearly went in: my first attempt scanned the file for Suggestions 3–7
Mutation gateAll eight reverted individually, all eight killed. I diff each mutation against pristine before trusting a verdict — a silently no-op
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…e truth about the backup Round-4 review fixes for the bobshell alias command. All seven items were reproduced before being changed, and each new assertion was checked to fail when its fix is reverted. resolveRC followed only one hop. On head -> mid -> tail with tail absent — what stow and chezmoi produce mid-setup, the state the function's own doc comment names as its motivation — the write landed on `mid`, which lost its symlink bit to a regular file while the real target was never created. The Readlink fallback now loops with a hop cap, and an exhausted cap returns the ORIGINAL path rather than whichever hop it stopped on: every hop of a cycle is a live symlink, so handing one back would clobber it. readRC's ELOOP is the report. The lone-START recovery could delete a user's own alias. The walk matched the bare prefix "alias bob=", so `alias bob='/usr/local/bin/bob --fast'` on the line below a hand-damaged end marker was claimed as ours and removed by disable — the round-trip identity this file's header promises, broken for the third time by the same defect. isOurAliasLine reconstructs the full shape this command emits and requires equality, so what a recovered block takes is bounded by adjacency AND by provenance. The existing regression test could not catch it: its fixture has no START marker, so the branch never ran. The new one drives both damage shapes through findBobShellBlock and removeBobShellBlock. enable promised a .bak in two reachable cases where none is written — the from-scratch path, which is the common first run since bobShellRCPath returns ~/.zshrc whether or not it exists, and a dangling link. A consent prompt offering a rollback artifact that will not exist is the wrong thing to be wrong about, so the sentence is gated on the file existing and says what will happen instead. Both commands now resolve once and pass the result to writeRC. They each called resolveRC twice, straddling the prompt, the mode read, the backup and the rename; a link repointed in that window meant the message named one file and the write landed on another. The new test repoints it from inside the confirm callback, which is the only way to observe the difference. The shared os.Stat is what the backup sentence keys off. writeRC no longer runs MkdirAll: it built a three-deep tree for a dangling link into a not-yet-cloned dotfiles repo, at a location no message named. It now refuses and names the missing directory. Two review items needed no code change. The stale duplicated comment about `written` is gone, replaced by the single paragraph the code actually implements. And the mangled-end-marker residue is already removed rather than left behind — the walk matches "# <<< cortex abctl" as a prefix, so grep -c MANGLED is 0, not 1. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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Report "does not exist" only when the parent directory is actually missing.
Every os.Stat(dir) error produces the message "directory %s does not exist". This includes EACCES on a parent that exists, ENOTDIR, and I/O errors. With EACCES, the user is told to "create it first", but the directory already exists. The real cause is lost. Check errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) first. Wrap any other error unchanged.
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if dir := filepath.Dir(path); dir != "" {
if _, err := os.Stat(dir); err != nil {
- return fmt.Errorf("directory %s does not exist: create it first, or point --rc somewhere else", dir)
+ if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
+ return fmt.Errorf("directory %s does not exist: create it first, or point --rc somewhere else", dir)
+ }
+ return fmt.Errorf("checking directory %s: %w", dir, err)
}
}Based on learnings: "check whether the returned error specifically indicates non-existence (e.g., via os.IsNotExist/errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist)) rather than treating any err != nil as 'not found'."
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/cmd_bobshell.go` around lines 521 - 524, Update the
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Round-5 review found three more hand-edits that break the recovery walk, all
reproduced. The worst outcome is the one the walk was added to prevent: status
reports "not enabled" while the shell still aliases bob.
- A blank line or a stray comment between a damaged START and our alias splits
the claimed range, so enable substituted a block for the marker alone and the
original alias survived below it. Two live aliases; disable then removed only
the fenced copy.
- A lone END marker was unhandled, so enable appended a whole second block.
- Two STARTs with no END claimed only the first pair and stranded the second.
Three rounds have now each found a different shape, and each fix patched where
the walk stops. That was treating the symptom: ownership was expressed as a
contiguous span, and a damaged file's owned lines are a SET. A fourth hand-edit
would have found a fourth gap.
So ownedLines replaces findBobShellBlock as the primitive, and the rewriters
work over the set of owned indices. The ownership test is provenance and nothing
else: a marker matched exactly, or an alias line matching the full shape enable
emits, anywhere in the file. Position is not part of it.
Being inside a fence deliberately does NOT confer ownership. The first version
of this said it did — a fence is a region we manage, so its contents look like
they must be ours — and the generated-damage test caught it in one run: a user
who pastes their own alias between the markers had it replaced by enable. A
fence is bookkeeping we wrote into someone else's file, not a licence to delete
what ends up inside it. Consequences: an unterminated START cannot swallow
everything below it, and a closed fence holding a foreign line leaves that line
after disable, which is correct rather than residue.
findBobShellBlock survives only as the hull of the owned set, for quoting the
damaged region back to the user. No writer keys off it, and its doc says so.
bobShellAliasIn becomes bobShellAliasesIn: a damaged file can hold more than one
of our aliases and status has to say so rather than reporting the first. Its
filter is isOurAliasLine, not the `alias bob=` prefix the single-valued version
used — that prefix was round-4's MUST FIX 2 living on in another function.
Tests assert the invariant (after enable exactly one live alias, after disable
none, and the user's own alias untouched) over every shape found so far, and
then over 1554 generated files built from the pieces a damaged rc file is made
of, because three rounds of hand-picked shapes is enough evidence that the next
one exists. That test found the fenced-foreign-alias case unprompted.
One behaviour change worth naming: disable now leaves a hand-MANGLED end marker
in place. It passed before only because the walk matched "# <<< cortex abctl" as
a prefix, which is the same looseness that let a recovered block claim a user's
alias. Round 4's suggestion 4 asked about this residue and I answered "already
removed" — true then, but as a side effect of that unsafe prefix, not by design.
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Round 5 in All three, reproducedMF1 is the worst outcome in this PR so far, exactly as you describe:
MF2: lone END → MF3: two STARTs → after The actual causeEach round I patched where the walk stops. Round 3: unbounded scan → bounded. Round 4: bare prefix → provenance. Round 5 would have been: adjacency → adjacency-with-gaps. That's symptom-chasing — the real problem is that ownership was a contiguous span, and a damaged file's owned lines are a set. So func ownedLines(lines []string) []int {
var owned []int
for i, l := range lines {
switch t := strings.TrimSpace(l); {
case t == bobShellMarkerStart, t == bobShellMarkerEnd, isOurAliasLine(t):
owned = append(owned, i)
}
}
return owned
}No state machine, no adjacency, no lookahead.
A wrong turn worth reportingMy first version said lines inside a closed fence are ours by construction. It felt obviously right. The generated-damage test killed it in one run: A user who pastes their own alias between the markers had it silently replaced. A fence is bookkeeping we wrote into someone else's file, not a licence to delete what ends up inside it — so position confers nothing, provenance is the only test. Two consequences, both deliberate: an unterminated START cannot swallow what's below it, and a closed fence holding a foreign line leaves that line after VerificationInvariant asserted directly — after Mutation-verified: span-based Round-trip identity re-swept across the seven shapes — byte-identical except the documented One behaviour change, and a correction to what I told you
Your round-4 suggestion 4 asked about exactly this residue and I replied "already removed, not left behind." That was true of the behaviour but wrong about the reason: it was a side effect of the unsafe prefix, not a design choice, and it could not survive fixing the prefix. You were right to flag it; I should have recognised the two were the same fact rather than reporting one as a non-issue.
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Round 6 of review on rossoctl#1120 found three defects, all in how ownership is decided. Each was reproduced before being fixed. 1. disable's confirmation prompt printed findBobShellBlock's hull while the write removed only the owned set. On a file whose owned lines are non-contiguous the hull spans the user's lines between ours, so the prompt claimed `export SECRET_TOKEN=...` and `source ~/.work_secrets` were being removed and they were not — ten lines shown, two removed. A consent prompt that overstates a destructive edit is as broken as one that understates it: the user either declines a safe operation or believes their secrets are gone. It now prints ownedLines. 2. An alias inside a fence we wrote, spelled with different quoting (another abctl build, or a hand-edit), was not owned, so disable removed the markers and left it. It printed the alias as removed, said "Disabled.", exited 0 — and the shell still routed bob through the proxy, with status reporting "not enabled". That is the exact invisible-live-alias outcome the recovery code exists to prevent. 3. Ownership by bare marker text claimed markers this tool never wrote. `--help` prints the block verbatim, so a user pasting it into their rc as a note is the expected path to a file holding our exact marker text; disable deleted two lines out of the middle of that comment, silently, while reporting success. Items 2 and 3 are one defect with opposite signs: provenance-only ownership over-claims bare markers and under-claims a fence's real payload. The fix is that a marker counts only as half of a MATCHED PAIR, and a pair that fences a live alias owns its interior. A lone marker is inert text — nothing textual distinguishes it from a user's note, because they copied it from us — and an empty pair is likewise unclaimed. Resolving item 2 against round 5 needed a second predicate. Round 5 established that a fence must not swallow `alias bob='/usr/local/bin/bob --fast'`; round 6 requires it to claim `alias bob="/b/abctl exec -- \bob"`. Both are `alias bob=` inside a matched pair. What separates them is what they invoke: the first runs the real bob with the user's flags, the second runs an abctl's `exec -- bob`, which is this feature and nothing else. looksLikeOurMechanism tests for the latter and is used only inside a pair, where a line is presumptively ours; isOurAliasLine still governs ownership anywhere else in the file. Anything unrecognised stays unclaimed, which is the safe direction. Consequences, recorded because they are trade-offs and not oversights: an unpaired marker survives disable, and an emptied pair is left alone. Both are cosmetic residue, and both converge — repeated enables leave one orphan and one alias, verified. Deleting a line of someone else's rc file is the failure that is not cosmetic. bobShellStatus loses its "block is there but has no alias line" branch, which became unreachable: there is no longer a state where we hold markers and no alias. Tests. Three regression tests, one per finding, plus a table for the new predicate; four existing assertions retargeted from "no marker-shaped line survives" to "no marker PAIR of ours survives", via an ownedMarkerPair helper written out independently so the assertion does not inherit the bug it checks for. One retargeted assertion was keyed on `tc.damage == ""` as though that selected an undamaged case; both rows damage the END marker, so it only ever selected the deleted one, where a residual marker is correct — it passed only while bare markers were claimed. Two of my own tests were verifying nothing, found by mutation and worth naming. The prompt test's fixture owned a single line, and the hull of one line is that line, so it could not tell hull from owned set and passed under the mutation reverting item 1; it now owns a marker pair with user content between. The predicate table had no case where the first field is not an abctl, so dropping that check survived; added. Verified: full suite, -race, vet, gofmt clean; ten mutations across the new logic all killed, including a revert to "a fence owns everything inside it" (killed by 4 tests, so round 5's constraint stays pinned); 13-shape end-to-end sweep through the real binary holding enable:1 / disable:0 / the user's alias preserved; the 1554 generated damage files still clean; a realistic rc round-trips byte-identically, and the documentation-comment file is untouched. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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All three reproduced first, then fixed. Round 6 is MF2 and MF3 are one defect with opposite signs. Both come from ownership being keyed off bare marker text: MF2 leaves a live alias behind because the interior of our own fence isn't claimed, MF3 deletes a user's lines because a marker anywhere is claimed. Patching them separately would have produced two rules that contradict each other, so I changed the primitive instead. Pairing alone did not fix MF3, which I only found by running your fixture. Your documentation comment contains a genuine, byte-identical pair — confirmed with Round 5 and round 6 pull in opposite directions here, and the resolution is two predicates with opposite burdens of proof. Round 5 established a fence must not swallow MF1 is the one-line fix you named: the prompt prints Two of my own new tests were verifying nothing until mutation caught them, which is the same class of failure you caught at round 4, so I'm naming both. M1 (revert MF1's fix) survived: my prompt fixture used a mangled end marker, so only one line was owned — and the hull of a single line is that line, so the fixture couldn't tell hull from owned set. Valid end marker, pair owned with user content between, M1 killed. M5 survived because Residue I accepted, both cosmetic and both convergent: an unpaired marker and an emptied-out pair survive Also retargeted four pre-existing assertions, one of which was mis-keyed before this change: Suite, Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com |
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Resolves #1119
abctl configure bobshellprinted a coming-soon notice and exited 0 — the onlyconfigureagent with no verbs. The reason was structural:configure claude-codepersists by writing
~/.claude/settings.json, and Bob Shell has no settings file.But Bob Shell is a shell command, so it has a second persistence surface: the
user's own rc file. An alias makes plain
bobroute through Cortex in everyfuture interactive shell — the same outcome
configure claude-code enableproduces for
claude, reached by a different mechanism.What this adds
enable | disable | status, with claude-code's flag conventions (--yes, plus--rc PATH) and exit codes, managing a marker-guarded block in~/.zshrcor thebash equivalent:
The subcommand is
bobshellbut the alias isbob, because the word does twounrelated jobs:
bobshellis the agent name you configure, andbobis both whatyou type afterwards and what is on your PATH. Renaming the latter would alias a
command nobody runs and wrap a binary that does not exist.
The backslash in
\bobsuppresses alias expansion on that one word, so the aliasreaches the real PATH binary instead of calling itself — verified in both zsh and
bash with stub binaries.
Largely a port of
install.sh'soffer_path_setup, which already answers thisquestion for its PATH line: rc detection from
$SHELL, marker-guard idempotency,consent on
/dev/tty, backup, and the closing "applies to new shells" note. Itsown comment says it matches what
claude-code enabledoes tosettings.json, sothe two halves of one idea stop being expressed in two languages.
Details worth a reviewer's eye
the shell may never read, since which file bash reads depends on the platform
and on login-ness. An unknown shell is refused rather than guessed at, and the
error names
--rcas the way through.hand over years, so replacing the pristine copy with one this command already
edited loses the only version the user wrote.
install.sh's unconditionalcphas exactly that bug.
silently tightening it to 0600 is a change nobody asked for.
could have it (
cmd_configure.go's usage,README.md,cmd_exec.go's header).This feature falsifies all three, so they are corrected here rather than left
contradicting the code.
cmd_exec.go's "nothing is exported to your shell andno file is modified" is untouched — it is scoped to
exec's child process andremains true.
agent while rejecting it; its test asserted the valid set against the whole of
stderr, which also carries the usage block, whose agent table names every
agent. It now checks the error line alone — verified by reintroducing the bug
and watching it fail.
inferenceparser'sbobPathandsession'sBobSessionHeaderstill sayIBM Bob on purpose: they name the web UI whose traffic Cortex parses, a
different referent from the CLI being configured here.
Verification
14 new test functions / 24 subtests, every one using
--rcinto at.TempDir()so no real rc file is touched. They cover the
$SHELLresolution table, enableidempotency asserted byte-identically, surrounding content preserved,
backup-written-once, mode preservation, the decline path (exit 3, nothing
written), a full enable → disable round-trip back to the original bytes, and
configure bobshell status==bobshell statusas an equality assertion ratherthan a hardcoded string.
Also exercised end-to-end against a scratch rc, and the alias proven
non-recursive in real
zsh -i/bash -i.configure bobshelldoes not need Cortex running — unlikeabctl exec, whichreads the live proxy's
/config. The alias defers all of that to invocation time.One pre-existing test failure is unrelated and present on the base commit:
TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLostwants~/.cortex/ca/bundle.crtto exist.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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bobdirectly.bobshellinstead ofbobwithabctl configure. The old spelling now provides guidance to use the new command.