fix(hooks): dispatch the SessionStart hook via Git Bash on Windows

The SessionStart command string starts with a quoted path, which breaks
both Windows shells Claude Code may hand it to: PowerShell parses the
leading quoted string as an expression and dies on the next bareword
('Unexpected token session-start', #1751), and cmd.exe's /c quote rule
drops the outer quotes when the path contains a metacharacter, so a
profile dir like C:\Users\Name(External) truncates the command at the
'(' (#1918). Either way the bootstrap silently never loads.

Declare shell: "bash" on the hook. Claude Code >= 2.1.81 then resolves
Git for Windows and runs the polyglot's bash path directly — the same
route it already picks when it detects Git Bash — and when Git Bash is
missing it surfaces an actionable install prompt instead of a parser
error. Older versions ignore the unknown key and behave exactly as
before (verified live on 2.0.77 and 2.1.80).

Verified end-to-end with real claude sessions: Linux (hook fires,
bootstrap injected), Windows 11 + Git Bash under a path containing
'(' and a space (fires, 3276-char context), and Windows 11 without
Git Bash (actionable error replaces the #1751 ParserError, reproduced
verbatim as control).

Fixes #1751
Fixes #1918
This commit is contained in:
Jesse Vincent
2026-07-16 00:13:35 +00:00
parent fb7b07088e
commit 390bc07abb
2 changed files with 22 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -143,6 +143,27 @@ for (const forbiddenText of forbiddenTexts) {
echo "SessionStart hook output tests"
# Registration shape: the hook must declare shell:"bash" so Claude Code on
# Windows dispatches via Git Bash (or fails with an actionable error) instead
# of PowerShell/cmd.exe, whose parsers break on the quoted command string
# (PowerShell ParserError; cmd.exe quote-stripping on paths with metacharacters).
if node -e '
const hooks = JSON.parse(require("fs").readFileSync(process.argv[1], "utf8"));
const entry = hooks.hooks.SessionStart[0].hooks[0];
if (entry.shell !== "bash") {
console.error(`SessionStart hook shell is ${JSON.stringify(entry.shell)}, expected "bash"`);
process.exit(1);
}
if (!/run-hook\.cmd" session-start$/.test(entry.command)) {
console.error(`unexpected SessionStart command shape: ${entry.command}`);
process.exit(1);
}
' "$REPO_ROOT/hooks/hooks.json"; then
pass "hooks.json registers SessionStart with shell:bash dispatch"
else
fail "hooks.json registers SessionStart with shell:bash dispatch"
fi
claude_home="$(make_home claude-code)"
assert_command_output \
"Claude Code emits nested SessionStart additionalContext" \