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fix(claude): gate the shell hook on an installed Claude Code CLI - #2144

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The .zshrc hook was appended whenever system-env injection succeeded, so a user who never installed Claude Code still got an OpenCodex-owned block sourcing a file for a CLI they do not have — and a stale block survived uninstalling it.

Credit: @lilinxiong's #2105 is the implementation and test suite carried here.

The hook is now written only when an executable claude is discoverable on PATH, and the operation is a reconcile rather than an append: when Claude Code or system-env integration is gone, the OpenCodex-owned block is removed and every user line is left untouched. Empty PATH segments are ignored so a workspace-local file is never mistaken for a durable installation, and a failed removal is reported as failed instead of silently reported as absent.

One thing worth stating plainly

"Installed" is answered from the PATH of the calling process. A launchd/service context with a stripped PATH can therefore fail to see a claude that the user's interactive shell finds, and will remove the hook.

That is the intended failure direction rather than an oversight: removing an OpenCodex-owned block is reversible on the next foreground ocx start, whereas leaving a hook pointing at an uninstalled CLI is exactly the stale state this reconciliation exists to clear. Only our own marked block is ever touched. I added that reasoning as a comment on reconcileShellHook so the next reader does not have to rediscover it.

Verification

  • RED-first: reverting src/cli/index.ts and src/server/system-env.ts makes the suite fail to even resolve claudeCodeCliInstalled — the export does not exist on dev.
  • bun test --isolate tests — 13,542 pass, 0 fail, 10 skip (856 files).
  • bun test --isolate tests/claude-shell-hook.test.ts — 8 pass, 0 fail, against a fake HOME/PATH.
  • bun run typecheck — clean.
  • bun run privacy:scan — passed.

Supersedes

Closes #2105 (@lilinxiong) once merged, with attribution.

Checklist

  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed. (Claude Code guides updated in the locales the original PR touched.)
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. (Writes only an OpenCodex-marked block to the user's .zshrc, never removes user lines, and reads no credential. The PATH scan requires a real executable file and skips empty segments, so a workspace-local claude cannot be mistaken for an installation. Privacy scan green.)

Closes #2105

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Shell environment hooks are installed only when the Claude Code CLI is available and system environment integration is enabled.
    • Hooks are automatically removed when either condition is no longer met.
    • Claude Desktop does not trigger shell-hook installation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Startup and ocx ensure now consistently reconcile shell-hook state.
    • Improved handling of hook installation and removal failures, with clearer guidance for manual recovery.
  • Documentation

    • Updated Claude Code integration guidance across supported languages.

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The PR gates .zshrc hook installation on an executable Claude Code CLI and active system environment injection. Startup and ocx ensure remove stale OpenCodex hooks. Tests cover detection, reconciliation, failures, and CLI wiring. Guides document the behavior in English and supported translations.

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Claude Code shell hook

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI detection and hook reconciliation
src/server/system-env.ts
claudeCodeCliInstalled scans PATH for a regular executable claude file. reconcileShellHook installs or removes the owned hook based on macOS, injection state, and CLI availability. Removal handles LF and CRLF blocks and reports malformed or failed operations.
Startup and ensure integration
src/cli/index.ts, tests/claude-shell-hook.test.ts
Startup and the existing-proxy ocx ensure path reconcile the hook using systemEnv.injected and report failures. Tests cover CLI detection, permissions, PATH handling, preservation, idempotency, removal failures, and wiring.
Translated integration guidance
docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/claude-code.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/*/guides/claude-code.md
The English and translated guides describe conditional hook installation, stale-hook removal, and the separate Claude Desktop behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b394b

The reconciliation can remove a user-modified shell command that resembles the OpenCodex hook, potentially changing .zshrc content outside the owned block. Merge should wait for exact owned-block matching and a regression test.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as CLI startup or ocx ensure
  participant Hook as reconcileShellHook
  participant PATH as PATH
  participant Zshrc as .zshrc
  CLI->>Hook: Pass system environment injection result
  Hook->>PATH: Check for executable claude
  Hook->>Zshrc: Install or remove OpenCodex hook
  Zshrc-->>Hook: Return reconciliation state
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  • lidge-jun/opencodex#2105: Modifies the same Claude shell-hook reconciliation logic, CLI wiring, tests, and documentation.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation, tests, and translations address all coding objectives in issue #2105, including PATH detection, reconciliation, cleanup, preservation, and Claude Desktop separation.
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In `@src/cli/index.ts`:
- Around line 368-371: Update both reconcileShellHook call sites in
src/cli/index.ts at lines 368-371 and 458-459 to capture the result and report
an error to the CLI user when its state is "failed"; preserve the existing
behavior for successful reconciliation and apply the same handling in the
existing-proxy handleEnsure path.

In `@src/server/system-env.ts`:
- Around line 180-188: Update uninstallShellHook to remove the exact
SHELL_HOOK_LINE block with either LF or CRLF endings, and return a failure
result when a detected marker cannot be removed; reconcileShellHook should then
preserve its existing failure handling. In tests/claude-shell-hook.test.ts lines
53-72, add a CRLF .zshrc fixture verifying the owned block is removed while
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#2105를 가져온 거임. system-env 주입이 성공하면 .zshrc에 훅을 무조건 붙임. Claude Code 없는 사람도 OpenCodex 블록이 claude를 소싱함. 지워도 스테일이 남음. 지금은 PATH에서 실행 가능한 claude가 있을 때만 쓰고, 없으면 우리 마크 블록만 지움. 유저 줄은 안 건드림. 빈 PATH 세그먼트는 무시해서 워크스페이스 로컬 파일을 설치로 안 봄.

호출 프로세스 PATH로 “설치됨”을 판정함. launchd/서비스가 PATH를 깎으면 훅을 지움. 그게 의도임. 스테일 훅을 남기는 쪽이 더 나쁨. 다음 포그라운드 ocx start가 되돌림. reconcileShellHook 주석이 그거 적음.

테스트 8개가 fake HOME/PATH. 소스 되돌리면 export가 없어서 스위트 자체가 안 뜸. types.ts/config.ts 안 건드림. #2105는 머지되면 닫음. 원 PR 리베이스하지 말 것.

점수는 56임. 맞는데 2.27 불은 아님. 윈도우 로그가드(#2143) 뒤.

해결방안: 머지 후 #2105 attribution 달고 닫기. 서비스 PATH가 훅을 지우는 건 문서에 한 줄이면 됨.

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I cannot approve the current head because it is 16 commits behind the current dev tip (caf20353f). The existing diff and CI results therefore predate a material set of integration changes.

Please rebase this focused change onto the latest dev, resolve any conflicts without carrying unrelated commits, rerun the focused checks plus the full exact-head suite, and re-request review. This is a review-state blocker, not a rejection of the fix direction.

The .zshrc hook was appended whenever system-env injection succeeded, so a user
who never installed Claude Code still got an OpenCodex-owned block sourcing a
file for a CLI they do not have, and a stale block survived uninstalling it.

Write the hook only when an executable claude is discoverable on PATH, and
reconcile rather than append: when Claude Code or system-env integration is gone,
remove the OpenCodex-owned block and leave every user line untouched. Empty PATH
segments are ignored so a workspace-local file is never mistaken for a durable
installation, and a failed removal is reported as failed instead of reported as
absent.

Carries @lilinxiong's #2105 implementation and tests.

Added a note on the intended failure direction: "installed" is answered from the
PATH of the calling process, so a service context with a stripped PATH can remove
a hook an interactive shell would have kept. That is reversible on the next
foreground ocx start, whereas a hook pointing at an uninstalled CLI is the stale
state this reconciliation exists to clear.

Closes #2105
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Two defects CodeRabbit found on #2144.

uninstallShellHook matched the owned block with LF-only newlines. A
.zshrc with CRLF endings -- ordinary on a home directory an editor or
another OS has touched -- did not match, so the file was rewritten
unchanged while the caller was told the hook was removed. The hook kept
sourcing on every new interactive shell and the reported state said it
did not. The pattern now accepts CR?LF and verifies the marker is gone
before claiming removal; a block shaped differently is reported failed.

Both cli/index.ts call sites discarded the result, so state: "failed"
-- the one outcome the user has to act on -- was never surfaced. They
now print the reason and where to look.
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In `@src/server/system-env.ts`:
- Around line 121-131: Update the hook-removal logic around SHELL_HOOK_LINE to
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preceding line delimiter. Add a regression test for a marker followed by a
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// Match CR?LF, not LF alone. A .zshrc with CRLF line endings — ordinary on a home
// directory an editor or another OS has touched — did not match, so the file was
// rewritten unchanged and the caller was told the hook was removed. Reporting success
// while the hook still sources on every new shell is the worse of the two failures.
const cleaned = content.replace(/\r?\n?# opencodex claude-env hook\r?\n\[.*claude-env\.sh.*(?:\r?\n)?/g, "\n");
// Verify instead of assuming: if the marker survives, the block is shaped in a way this
// pattern does not own, and the honest answer is failure rather than a silent no-op.
if (cleaned.includes(SHELL_HOOK_MARKER)) {
return { removed: false, reason: "hook block present but not in the expected shape; remove it manually" };
}
writeFileSync(zshrcPath, cleaned, { encoding: "utf8", mode: 0o644 });

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Match only the exact OpenCodex-owned hook block.

Line 125 accepts any bracketed line that contains claude-env.sh. It also does not anchor the marker to a complete line. A user-modified hook command can match this pattern, be deleted, and return removed: true.

Build the pattern from the exact two lines in SHELL_HOOK_LINE. Allow CRLF between those lines. Preserve the captured preceding line delimiter. Add a regression test with a marker followed by a modified bracketed command and verify that reconciliation returns failed without changing .zshrc.

Proposed fix
-    const cleaned = content.replace(/\r?\n?# opencodex claude-env hook\r?\n\[.*claude-env\.sh.*(?:\r?\n)?/g, "\n");
+    const escapedHook = SHELL_HOOK_LINE
+      .split("\n")
+      .map(line => line.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&"))
+      .join("\\r?\\n");
+    const cleaned = content.replace(
+      new RegExp(`(^|\\r?\\n)${escapedHook}(?:\\r?\\n|$)`, "g"),
+      "$1",
+    );
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// Match CR?LF, not LF alone. A .zshrc with CRLF line endings — ordinary on a home
// directory an editor or another OS has touched — did not match, so the file was
// rewritten unchanged and the caller was told the hook was removed. Reporting success
// while the hook still sources on every new shell is the worse of the two failures.
const cleaned = content.replace(/\r?\n?# opencodex claude-env hook\r?\n\[.*claude-env\.sh.*(?:\r?\n)?/g, "\n");
// Verify instead of assuming: if the marker survives, the block is shaped in a way this
// pattern does not own, and the honest answer is failure rather than a silent no-op.
if (cleaned.includes(SHELL_HOOK_MARKER)) {
return { removed: false, reason: "hook block present but not in the expected shape; remove it manually" };
}
writeFileSync(zshrcPath, cleaned, { encoding: "utf8", mode: 0o644 });
// Match CR?LF, not LF alone. A .zshrc with CRLF line endings — ordinary on a home
// directory an editor or another OS has touched — did not match, so the file was
// rewritten unchanged and the caller was told the hook was removed. Reporting success
// while the hook still sources on every new shell is the worse of the two failures.
const escapedHook = SHELL_HOOK_LINE
.split("\n")
.map(line => line.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&"))
.join("\\r?\\n");
const cleaned = content.replace(
new RegExp(`(^|\\r?\\n)${escapedHook}(?:\\r?\\n|$)`, "g"),
"$1",
);
// Verify instead of assuming: if the marker survives, the block is shaped in a way this
// pattern does not own, and the honest answer is failure rather than a silent no-op.
if (cleaned.includes(SHELL_HOOK_MARKER)) {
return { removed: false, reason: "hook block present but not in the expected shape; remove it manually" };
}
writeFileSync(zshrcPath, cleaned, { encoding: "utf8", mode: 0o644 });
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In `@src/server/system-env.ts` around lines 121 - 131, Update the hook-removal
logic around SHELL_HOOK_LINE to match only the exact OpenCodex-owned two-line
block, allowing CRLF between lines and anchoring the marker and command to
complete lines while preserving the preceding line delimiter. Add a regression
test for a marker followed by a modified bracketed command, asserting
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