fix(remote): keep Codeman's pane command away from the remote default-shell

Handing the launch to bash verbatim exposed `"${SHELL:-/bin/sh}"` to the far
end for the first time. tmux runs a one-argument command through the remote
default-shell, not /bin/sh as the comments said, and fish refuses `${...}`:
on a fish host, or a bash login with `set -g default-shell fish`, every new
pane died with status 127. master only survived because the local sh had
already rewritten that token to this host's shell path.

Codeman's own text now goes to `/bin/sh -c` as separate tmux arguments, which
tmux execs without a shell. A commands.* override stays one argument and keeps
the default-shell it was written for: under `/bin/sh` a `source` or `[[` in an
override dies with 127 on bash and zsh hosts.

The tests read the argv tmux would receive through a real sh, so they need no
fish: every stock launch must reach /bin/sh and an override must not. The
docker half of bashCArg was pinned by nothing, so it gets its own test.

Comments that described the removed double-quote layer are corrected, and
remote-hosts.ts no longer claims overrides are seeded from the default text
or that they rescue nushell and elvish.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -66,10 +66,11 @@ export async function writeRemoteCases(configDir: string, cases: RemoteCase[]):
* arrival, the #208 failure all over again (verified: `sh -c 'exec $SHELL -i -l'`
* with SHELL unset prints `exec: -i: not found`). In practice tmux always exports
* SHELL into a pane from its own `default-shell` option, so the command as USED
* here is safe either way (also verified). The default matters because these
* strings are the seed values a per-host `commands.*` override is edited from, and
* nothing constrains where an edited one ends up running. Quoted for a shell path
* containing spaces. `/bin/sh` exists on every POSIX host.
* here is safe either way (also verified). Quoted for a shell path containing
* spaces. `/bin/sh` exists on every POSIX host.
*
* ⚠️ This is POSIX text. fish refuses `${…}` (status 127), so a launch hands it to
* `/bin/sh -c`, never to the remote default-shell (`buildRemoteLaunchCommand`).
*/
const REMOTE_LOGIN_SHELL = '"${SHELL:-/bin/sh}"';
@@ -80,10 +81,12 @@ const REMOTE_LOGIN_SHELL = '"${SHELL:-/bin/sh}"';
* so a bare `exec claude` sees only sshd's minimal default PATH and dies with
* "command not found" (exit 127).
*
* Shells that take neither flag (nushell, elvish, …) cannot be detected from here
* the way `loginShellArgs()` detects them locally, since the shell is whatever the
* REMOTE passwd says. A host like that is what the per-host `commands.*` override
* is for.
* Shells that take neither flag cannot be detected from here the way
* `loginShellArgs()` detects them locally, since the shell is whatever the REMOTE
* passwd says. A host like that is what the per-host `commands.*` override is for
* (tcsh, which rejects `-l` combined with `-i`). It only goes so far: the PATH
* bootstrap below runs in the login shell first, so a shell that cannot parse
* `export` at all (nushell, elvish) cannot be rescued by an override.
*/
export function remoteLoginShellCommand(command: string): string {
return `exec ${REMOTE_LOGIN_SHELL} -i -l -c ${shellescape(command)}`;
@@ -143,8 +146,9 @@ function overlayCliCommand(mode: SessionMode, location: 'remote' | 'docker'): st
* The per-host `commands.*` override remains the escape hatch for every mode.
*/
export function defaultRemoteCommandForMode(mode: SessionMode): string {
// $SHELL, not a hardcoded bash: sshd sets it from the remote user's /etc/passwd entry, so
// this launches their actual login shell (zsh, fish, …). `-i -l` so it sources rc files,
// $SHELL, not a hardcoded bash: sshd sets it from the remote user's /etc/passwd entry, and
// tmux exports its default-shell as SHELL into the pane, so this launches their actual
// login shell, or the default-shell their tmux.conf picks (zsh, fish, …). `-i -l` so it sources rc files,
// matching the local shell-mode launch. Not templatable as overlay data: the shell is
// whatever the REMOTE passwd says, which is why `shell` is the one arm still written here.
const shellCommand = `exec ${REMOTE_LOGIN_SHELL} -i -l`;