claudeup 4.17.0 → 4.18.0

package/src/services/alias-shell-writer.ts

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+/**
+ * Render the managed `claude` alias and splice it into shell rc files.
+ *
+ * Two layers:
+ *   - Pure render functions (POSIX vs fish) that take a config and emit text.
+ *   - I/O helpers that detect installed shells and replace the managed block
+ *     idempotently using sentinel comment markers.
+ */
+
+import { readFile, writeFile, stat } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { homedir } from "node:os";
+import {
+  ALIAS_FLAGS,
+  getFlagById,
+  type AliasFlag,
+} from "../data/alias-flags.js";
+import type { AliasConfig, FlagValue } from "./alias-store.js";
+
+export type ShellKind = "zsh" | "bash" | "fish";
+
+export interface ShellTarget {
+  kind: ShellKind;
+  /** Absolute path to the rc file. */
+  path: string;
+  /** True if the file currently exists on disk. */
+  exists: boolean;
+  /** True if `$SHELL` points at this shell — the default write target. */
+  isDefault: boolean;
+}
+
+const BLOCK_BEGIN = "# >>> claudeup managed alias >>>";
+const BLOCK_END = "# <<< claudeup managed alias <<<";
+
+/**
+ * Probe the user's home dir for the three supported shell rc files.
+ *
+ * Path discovery is intentionally simple: we don't follow `$ZDOTDIR` or
+ * fish's `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` overrides yet. If users hit those, we expose
+ * a path override later — for now the conventional locations cover the
+ * default install on macOS / Linux.
+ */
+export async function detectShells(
+  home: string = homedir(),
+  shellEnv: string = process.env.SHELL ?? "",
+): Promise<ShellTarget[]> {
+  const candidates: Array<{ kind: ShellKind; path: string }> = [
+    { kind: "zsh", path: join(home, ".zshrc") },
+    { kind: "bash", path: join(home, ".bashrc") },
+    { kind: "fish", path: join(home, ".config", "fish", "config.fish") },
+  ];
+
+  const defaultKind = inferDefaultShell(shellEnv);
+
+  const results: ShellTarget[] = [];
+  for (const c of candidates) {
+    let exists = existsSync(c.path);
+    if (exists) {
+      // existsSync can lie on broken symlinks — check stat too
+      try {
+        await stat(c.path);
+      } catch {
+        exists = false;
+      }
+    }
+    results.push({
+      kind: c.kind,
+      path: c.path,
+      exists,
+      isDefault: c.kind === defaultKind,
+    });
+  }
+  return results;
+}
+
+function inferDefaultShell(shellEnv: string): ShellKind | null {
+  if (shellEnv.endsWith("/zsh")) return "zsh";
+  if (shellEnv.endsWith("/bash")) return "bash";
+  if (shellEnv.endsWith("/fish")) return "fish";
+  return null;
+}
+
+// ─── Rendering ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/**
+ * One emitted argv token in the alias body. A token can be:
+ *
+ *  - A plain `literal` token like `--ide` or `low` (gets single-quoted in
+ *    the outer alias body).
+ *  - A `composite` token, where the actual argv value is the concatenation
+ *    of multiple parts. Used by templated flags so a value like
+ *    `dev-{folder}-{day}` becomes ONE shell argument with two embedded
+ *    substitutions, not three separate tokens.
+ *
+ * Composite parts are rendered together with no separating whitespace and
+ * with the appropriate close-outer / reopen-outer dance per shell.
+ */
+export type Segment =
+  | { kind: "literal"; text: string }
+  | { kind: "composite"; parts: SegmentPart[] };
+
+export type SegmentPart =
+  | { kind: "literal"; text: string }
+  | { kind: "raw"; posix: string; fish: string };
+
+/**
+ * Build the alias body as a list of segments. Pure function.
+ *
+ * Validation:
+ *  - `xorGroup` collisions are resolved by emitting only the first enabled
+ *    flag in the group. The UI is responsible for warning the user; the
+ *    renderer never silently keeps both.
+ *  - `requires` is enforced: a flag whose dependency is disabled is dropped.
+ */
+export function renderArgs(config: AliasConfig): Segment[] {
+  const out: Segment[] = [];
+  const seenXor = new Set<string>();
+
+  for (const flag of ALIAS_FLAGS) {
+    if (flag.requires) {
+      const dep = config.flags[flag.requires];
+      if (!isFlagEnabled(dep)) continue;
+    }
+    if (flag.xorGroup) {
+      if (seenXor.has(flag.xorGroup)) continue;
+    }
+    const value = config.flags[flag.id];
+    if (!value) continue;
+
+    const rendered = renderFlag(flag, value);
+    if (rendered.length === 0) continue;
+    out.push(...rendered);
+    if (flag.xorGroup) seenXor.add(flag.xorGroup);
+  }
+
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convenience: render each segment to its literal-token approximation.
+ * Composite segments are stringified by joining their literal parts with
+ * `<sub>` placeholders for raw parts. Used by tests and validation summaries
+ * where the actual shell substitution doesn't matter.
+ */
+export function renderArgsAsTokens(config: AliasConfig): string[] {
+  return renderArgs(config).map((seg) => {
+    if (seg.kind === "literal") return seg.text;
+    return seg.parts
+      .map((p) => (p.kind === "literal" ? p.text : `<${p.posix}>`))
+      .join("");
+  });
+}
+
+function isFlagEnabled(value: FlagValue | undefined): boolean {
+  if (!value) return false;
+  switch (value.kind) {
+    case "boolean":
+      return value.enabled;
+    case "tri-state":
+      return value.state !== "unset";
+    case "select":
+    case "text":
+    case "optional-text":
+    case "text-list":
+    case "multi-with-custom":
+      return value.enabled;
+  }
+}
+
+function lit(text: string): Segment {
+  return { kind: "literal", text };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Wrap a templated value as a composite segment if it contains any tokens,
+ * otherwise return it as a plain literal.
+ */
+function templatedSegment(value: string): Segment {
+  const parts = expandTemplateValue(value);
+  if (parts.length === 1 && parts[0].kind === "literal") {
+    return { kind: "literal", text: parts[0].text };
+  }
+  return { kind: "composite", parts };
+}
+
+function renderFlag(flag: AliasFlag, value: FlagValue): Segment[] {
+  switch (value.kind) {
+    case "boolean":
+      return value.enabled ? [lit(flag.flag)] : [];
+    case "tri-state":
+      if (value.state === "on") return [lit(flag.flag)];
+      if (value.state === "off" && flag.triStateOff)
+        return [lit(flag.triStateOff)];
+      return [];
+    case "select":
+      if (!value.enabled) return [];
+      // Empty value means "bare flag, default variant" (e.g. `--tmux` alone).
+      return value.value === ""
+        ? [lit(flag.flag)]
+        : [lit(flag.flag), lit(value.value)];
+    case "text":
+      if (!value.enabled || !value.value) return [];
+      return [
+        lit(flag.flag),
+        flag.templated ? templatedSegment(value.value) : lit(value.value),
+      ];
+    case "optional-text":
+      if (!value.enabled) return [];
+      if (!value.value) return [lit(flag.flag)];
+      return [
+        lit(flag.flag),
+        flag.templated ? templatedSegment(value.value) : lit(value.value),
+      ];
+    case "text-list": {
+      if (!value.enabled || value.values.length === 0) return [];
+      const out: Segment[] = [];
+      for (const v of value.values) {
+        if (!v) continue;
+        out.push(
+          lit(flag.flag),
+          flag.templated ? templatedSegment(v) : lit(v),
+        );
+      }
+      return out;
+    }
+    case "multi-with-custom": {
+      if (!value.enabled) return [];
+      const tokens = dedupe([...value.picked, ...value.custom]).filter(
+        (t) => t.length > 0,
+      );
+      if (tokens.length === 0) return [lit(flag.flag)];
+      return [lit(flag.flag), lit(tokens.join(","))];
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Per-token shell-substitution code. POSIX and fish forms diverge slightly:
+ *
+ * - POSIX: classic `$(cmd)` with double quotes around `$PWD` so paths with
+ *   spaces survive word-splitting in `basename`. The double quotes are
+ *   tolerable inside the outer-double-quoted segment because we're already
+ *   committed to a "embedded substitution" layer.
+ * - fish: `(cmd)` and fish handles variable expansion without the
+ *   word-splitting concern, so `$PWD` doesn't need inner quoting.
+ *
+ * Note for POSIX: when this segment is emitted as `'"$(basename "$PWD")"'`,
+ * the shell sees `"$(basename "$PWD")"` — outer `"…"` enclosing an inner
+ * `"$PWD"`. POSIX (and bash/zsh) handle nested double quotes inside command
+ * substitution correctly: the inner `"$PWD"` is parsed within the `$(...)`
+ * subshell scope, not the outer shell's scope.
+ */
+const TOKEN_TO_SUB: Record<string, { posix: string; fish: string }> = {
+  "{folder}": {
+    posix: '$(basename "$PWD")',
+    fish: "(basename $PWD)",
+  },
+  "{day}": { posix: "$(date +%d)", fish: "(date +%d)" },
+  "{month}": { posix: "$(date +%m)", fish: "(date +%m)" },
+  "{year}": { posix: "$(date +%Y)", fish: "(date +%Y)" },
+};
+
+const TEMPLATE_RE = /\{(folder|day|month|year)\}/g;
+
+/**
+ * Split a templated value into alternating literal and raw parts.
+ * Empty literal pieces are dropped. If the value contains no tokens, returns
+ * a single literal part covering the full string.
+ */
+export function expandTemplateValue(value: string): SegmentPart[] {
+  const out: SegmentPart[] = [];
+  let last = 0;
+  for (const match of value.matchAll(TEMPLATE_RE)) {
+    const start = match.index;
+    if (start > last) {
+      out.push({ kind: "literal", text: value.slice(last, start) });
+    }
+    const sub = TOKEN_TO_SUB[match[0]];
+    if (sub) {
+      out.push({ kind: "raw", posix: sub.posix, fish: sub.fish });
+    }
+    last = start + match[0].length;
+  }
+  if (last < value.length) {
+    out.push({ kind: "literal", text: value.slice(last) });
+  }
+  if (out.length === 0) {
+    out.push({ kind: "literal", text: value });
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+function dedupe(arr: string[]): string[] {
+  return Array.from(new Set(arr));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fish quoting. Fish single quotes are simpler — only `\` and `'` need escapes.
+ */
+function quoteFish(s: string): string {
+  return `'${s.replace(/\\/g, "\\\\").replace(/'/g, "\\'")}'`;
+}
+
+export interface RenderedAlias {
+  shell: ShellKind;
+  /** The full block including BEGIN/END markers, ending with a newline. */
+  block: string;
+}
+
+export function renderAlias(
+  config: AliasConfig,
+  shell: ShellKind,
+): RenderedAlias {
+  const args = renderArgs(config);
+  const name = config.aliasName;
+  if (shell === "fish") {
+    return { shell, block: renderFishBlock(name, args) };
+  }
+  return { shell, block: renderPosixBlock(name, args) };
+}
+
+function renderPosixBlock(name: string, segments: Segment[]): string {
+  // The alias body lives inside outer single quotes:
+  //   alias <name>='claude … '
+  // Each segment becomes one shell-arg inside that body. Composite segments
+  // (templated values) interleave literal text with double-quoted shell
+  // substitutions via close-outer + double-quote + reopen-outer.
+  const body =
+    segments.length === 0
+      ? ""
+      : " " + segments.map(renderPosixSegment).join(" ");
+  const line = `alias ${name}='claude${body}'`;
+  return `${BLOCK_BEGIN}\n${line}\n${BLOCK_END}\n`;
+}
+
+function renderPosixSegment(seg: Segment): string {
+  if (seg.kind === "literal") return quoteInsidePosixAlias(seg.text);
+  return seg.parts
+    .map((p) =>
+      p.kind === "literal"
+        ? quoteInsidePosixAlias(p.text)
+        : embedPosixSubstitution(p.posix),
+    )
+    .join("");
+}
+
+/**
+ * Embed shell substitution code inside the outer single-quoted alias body
+ * so it fires when the alias is expanded, not when the alias is defined.
+ *
+ * The outer alias body is `'…'`. To inject `$(cmd)` and have it evaluate at
+ * expansion time, we close the outer `'`, switch to double quotes (which
+ * interpolate), emit the substitution, close the double quotes, reopen the
+ * outer `'`. Net source text: `'"$(cmd)"'`.
+ *
+ * Any inner double quotes in the substitution code (e.g. `"$PWD"` for
+ * spaces-in-paths protection) survive because POSIX command substitution
+ * has its own quoting context inside `$(...)`.
+ */
+function embedPosixSubstitution(posixCode: string): string {
+  return `'"${posixCode}"'`;
+}
+
+const POSIX_BARE = /^[A-Za-z0-9_\-=,:.\/!@%+]+$/;
+
+function quoteInsidePosixAlias(token: string): string {
+  if (POSIX_BARE.test(token)) return token;
+  // No internal single quotes guaranteed by upstream validation.
+  return `'\\''${token}'\\''`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Tokens with embedded single quotes can't be cleanly nested inside an outer
+ * single-quoted alias body without compounding escape layers that make the
+ * file unreadable. The UI surfaces this as an error before write.
+ *
+ * Composite segments are not checked here — their literal parts are checked
+ * via the same recursion. A `'` in a templated value's literal portion would
+ * still be unrenderable, so we walk the parts.
+ */
+export function findUnquotableTokens(segments: Segment[]): string[] {
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  for (const seg of segments) {
+    if (seg.kind === "literal") {
+      if (seg.text.includes("'")) out.push(seg.text);
+      continue;
+    }
+    for (const p of seg.parts) {
+      if (p.kind === "literal" && p.text.includes("'")) out.push(p.text);
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+function renderFishBlock(name: string, segments: Segment[]): string {
+  // Fish: `alias <name> 'claude --foo bar'` — outer single quotes, no `=`.
+  const body =
+    segments.length === 0
+      ? ""
+      : " " + segments.map(renderFishSegment).join(" ");
+  const line = `alias ${name} 'claude${body}'`;
+  return `${BLOCK_BEGIN}\n${line}\n${BLOCK_END}\n`;
+}
+
+function renderFishSegment(seg: Segment): string {
+  if (seg.kind === "literal") return quoteFish(seg.text);
+  return seg.parts
+    .map((p) =>
+      p.kind === "literal"
+        ? quoteFish(p.text)
+        : embedFishSubstitution(p.fish),
+    )
+    .join("");
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fish substitution embedding mirrors POSIX. Outer `'…'` is fish's literal
+ * single-quote (no interpolation), so close-and-double-quote-reopen is the
+ * same dance: `'"(cmd)"'` becomes literal-' + `(cmd)` evaluated at expansion
+ * time + literal-'.
+ */
+function embedFishSubstitution(fishCode: string): string {
+  return `'"${fishCode}"'`;
+}
+
+// ─── Splicing ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/**
+ * Replace the existing managed block in `existing` with `block`, or append
+ * `block` to the end if no block is present. Pure function — no I/O.
+ */
+export function spliceManagedBlock(existing: string, block: string): string {
+  const beginIdx = existing.indexOf(BLOCK_BEGIN);
+  if (beginIdx === -1) {
+    if (existing.length === 0) return block;
+    const sep = existing.endsWith("\n") ? "" : "\n";
+    return existing + sep + "\n" + block;
+  }
+  const endIdx = existing.indexOf(BLOCK_END, beginIdx);
+  if (endIdx === -1) {
+    // Malformed block — replace from BEGIN to EOF to be safe.
+    return existing.slice(0, beginIdx) + block;
+  }
+  // Consume the trailing newline of the END marker if present.
+  let cutEnd = endIdx + BLOCK_END.length;
+  if (existing[cutEnd] === "\n") cutEnd += 1;
+  return existing.slice(0, beginIdx) + block + existing.slice(cutEnd);
+}
+
+export interface WriteResult {
+  shell: ShellKind;
+  path: string;
+  /** "created" if the file did not exist; "updated" otherwise. */
+  action: "created" | "updated";
+}
+
+export async function writeAliasToShell(
+  config: AliasConfig,
+  target: ShellTarget,
+): Promise<WriteResult> {
+  const args = renderArgs(config);
+  const unquotable = findUnquotableTokens(args);
+  if (unquotable.length > 0) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Cannot render alias: ${unquotable.length} value${
+        unquotable.length === 1 ? "" : "s"
+      } contain a single quote, which can't be embedded in a shell alias. Edit the offending value(s) and try again: ${unquotable
+        .map((t) => JSON.stringify(t))
+        .join(", ")}`,
+    );
+  }
+  const rendered = renderAlias(config, target.kind);
+  const existing = target.exists ? await readFile(target.path, "utf8") : "";
+  const next = spliceManagedBlock(existing, rendered.block);
+  await writeFile(target.path, next, "utf8");
+  return {
+    shell: target.kind,
+    path: target.path,
+    action: target.exists ? "updated" : "created",
+  };
+}
+
+// ─── Validation summary (UI helper) ───────────────────────────────────────
+
+export interface FlagValidationIssue {
+  flagId: string;
+  reason: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Summarize which flags are in conflict given the current config.
+ * The UI uses this to grey out / annotate rows. The renderer enforces the
+ * same rules independently — this helper is purely for display.
+ */
+export function validateConfig(config: AliasConfig): FlagValidationIssue[] {
+  const issues: FlagValidationIssue[] = [];
+
+  // xor groups
+  const groups = new Map<string, string[]>();
+  for (const flag of ALIAS_FLAGS) {
+    if (!flag.xorGroup) continue;
+    if (!isFlagEnabled(config.flags[flag.id])) continue;
+    const list = groups.get(flag.xorGroup) ?? [];
+    list.push(flag.id);
+    groups.set(flag.xorGroup, list);
+  }
+  for (const [group, ids] of groups) {
+    if (ids.length > 1) {
+      const winner = ids[0];
+      const losers = ids.slice(1);
+      for (const loser of losers) {
+        issues.push({
+          flagId: loser,
+          reason: `Mutually exclusive with --${winner}; will be dropped on write.`,
+        });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // requires
+  for (const flag of ALIAS_FLAGS) {
+    if (!flag.requires) continue;
+    if (!isFlagEnabled(config.flags[flag.id])) continue;
+    if (!isFlagEnabled(config.flags[flag.requires])) {
+      const dep = getFlagById(flag.requires);
+      issues.push({
+        flagId: flag.id,
+        reason: `Requires ${dep.flag}; will be dropped on write.`,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return issues;
+}
+
+// ─── Parser ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// Reverses what the writer emits. Read shell rc text, extract the managed
+// block, find the `alias <name>='claude <body>'` line, tokenize the body
+// into argv strings (undoing POSIX nested-quote escapes and template
+// substitution embeds), then map argv to a FlagValue per the catalog.
+//
+// Only the POSIX dialect (zsh/bash) is supported on parse today. Fish round-
+// trip isn't symmetric to POSIX in our writer's output anyway (fish's auto-
+// concat of adjacent quoted strings makes parsing more involved), and the
+// vast majority of users are on zsh.
+
+export interface ParseResult {
+  aliasName: string | null;
+  args: string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Find the managed block in shell rc text, parse the alias line, and return
+ * the alias name plus the argv tokens after `claude`.
+ *
+ * Returns `null` when no managed block exists, the block is malformed, or
+ * the alias line can't be parsed. Callers treat null as "no managed alias
+ * on disk — start from defaults".
+ */
+export function parseManagedBlock(rcText: string): ParseResult | null {
+  const beginIdx = rcText.indexOf(BLOCK_BEGIN);
+  if (beginIdx === -1) return null;
+  const endIdx = rcText.indexOf(BLOCK_END, beginIdx);
+  if (endIdx === -1) return null;
+
+  // Lines inside the block, sans markers.
+  const inner = rcText.slice(beginIdx + BLOCK_BEGIN.length, endIdx);
+  // Find the `alias <name>=...` line (skip blank lines, comments, the markers).
+  const aliasLine = inner
+    .split("\n")
+    .map((l) => l.trim())
+    .find((l) => /^alias\s+[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*\s*=/.test(l));
+  if (!aliasLine) return null;
+
+  return parseAliasLine(aliasLine);
+}
+
+const ALIAS_LINE_RE = /^alias\s+([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*)\s*=\s*'(.*)'\s*$/;
+
+/**
+ * Parse a single `alias <name>='<body>'` line. Body is the raw text inside
+ * the outer single quotes; the tokenizer below undoes the writer's escape
+ * scheme.
+ */
+export function parseAliasLine(line: string): ParseResult | null {
+  const match = ALIAS_LINE_RE.exec(line);
+  if (!match) return null;
+  const [, aliasName, body] = match;
+  // First token is the command itself (claude). Drop it; we only want argv.
+  const tokens = tokenizePosixAliasBody(body);
+  if (tokens.length === 0 || tokens[0] !== "claude") return null;
+  return { aliasName, args: tokens.slice(1) };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Tokenize the body of a POSIX alias inside the outer single quotes.
+ *
+ * Our writer emits three shapes inside the outer `'…'`:
+ *   1. Bare tokens (matching POSIX_BARE) — emitted as-is.
+ *   2. Quoted literals: `'\''text without single quotes'\''` — these survive
+ *      the outer single quotes by closing them, emitting a literal `'`,
+ *      single-quoting the inner content, then a literal `'`, and reopening.
+ *   3. Substitution embeds: `'"$(cmd)"'` — close outer ', open ", embed,
+ *      close ", reopen outer '. Result is one shell arg with the
+ *      substitution that fires on alias expansion.
+ *
+ * Reading the body left-to-right, we expect to see:
+ *   - bare chars (collect into the current token's value)
+ *   - whitespace (delimits tokens)
+ *   - `'\''<text>'\''` (collect inner text verbatim into the current token)
+ *   - `'"<sub>"'` (record as a raw substitution and unparse it back into
+ *     the closest matching template token via `unparseSubstitution`)
+ *
+ * Tokens emitted as `composite` segments (template values) re-tokenize into
+ * a single shell arg whose pieces are interleaved literal+raw. We rebuild
+ * those as `{token}` strings to match what the UI stores.
+ */
+export function tokenizePosixAliasBody(body: string): string[] {
+  const tokens: string[] = [];
+  let current = "";
+  let inToken = false;
+  let i = 0;
+  const len = body.length;
+
+  const flush = () => {
+    if (inToken) {
+      tokens.push(current);
+      current = "";
+      inToken = false;
+    }
+  };
+
+  while (i < len) {
+    const ch = body[i];
+
+    if (ch === " " || ch === "\t") {
+      flush();
+      i += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // Quoted literal: '\''…'\''
+    if (body.startsWith(`'\\''`, i)) {
+      // Skip the opening sequence.
+      i += 4;
+      const end = body.indexOf(`'\\''`, i);
+      if (end === -1) return tokens; // malformed — bail, return what we have
+      current += body.slice(i, end);
+      inToken = true;
+      i = end + 4;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // Substitution embed: '"<sub>"'
+    if (body.startsWith(`'"`, i)) {
+      const inner = i + 2;
+      const close = body.indexOf(`"'`, inner);
+      if (close === -1) return tokens;
+      const subCode = body.slice(inner, close);
+      const token = unparseSubstitution(subCode);
+      current += token;
+      inToken = true;
+      i = close + 2;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // Bare character.
+    current += ch;
+    inToken = true;
+    i += 1;
+  }
+  flush();
+  return tokens;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Map a POSIX substitution code back to its template token, if one matches.
+ * Falls through to a `$(...)` literal when no token matches — that way we
+ * preserve hand-edited substitutions as opaque values rather than dropping
+ * them.
+ *
+ * Mirror of TOKEN_TO_SUB in the writer.
+ */
+function unparseSubstitution(posixCode: string): string {
+  switch (posixCode) {
+    case '$(basename "$PWD")':
+      return "{folder}";
+    case "$(date +%d)":
+      return "{day}";
+    case "$(date +%m)":
+      return "{month}";
+    case "$(date +%Y)":
+      return "{year}";
+    default:
+      // Unknown substitution: pass through the raw code so the user can see
+      // it in the UI and decide whether to keep it. The writer can't faithfully
+      // round-trip it, but at least we don't silently drop it.
+      return posixCode;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Apply parsed argv tokens to a FlagValue map. Walks the catalog in order,
+ * consuming tokens that match each flag's pattern. Tokens that don't match
+ * any flag are dropped silently (e.g. the user hand-added a flag we don't
+ * know about). Returns a fresh `Record<flagId, FlagValue>` suitable for
+ * splicing into an AliasConfig.
+ *
+ * Ordering: the writer emits flags in catalog order, so a left-to-right
+ * scan is sufficient. We pre-index by flag string for `--foo` lookups.
+ */
+export function argsToFlagValues(args: string[]): Record<string, FlagValue> {
+  // Index every flag by its primary `flag` string AND its triStateOff variant.
+  const byFlag = new Map<string, { flag: AliasFlag; off?: boolean }>();
+  for (const flag of ALIAS_FLAGS) {
+    byFlag.set(flag.flag, { flag, off: false });
+    if (flag.triStateOff) {
+      byFlag.set(flag.triStateOff, { flag, off: true });
+    }
+  }
+
+  const out: Record<string, FlagValue> = {};
+  let i = 0;
+  while (i < args.length) {
+    const tok = args[i];
+    const entry = byFlag.get(tok);
+    if (!entry) {
+      // Unknown flag — skip this token AND its likely value, if next looks
+      // like a value (doesn't start with --). This is a best-effort skip
+      // so unknown flag pairs don't cascade-corrupt the rest of the parse.
+      i += 1;
+      if (i < args.length && !args[i].startsWith("-")) i += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    const { flag, off } = entry;
+    const peek = (): string | undefined => args[i + 1];
+    const takeValue = (): string => {
+      const v = args[i + 1];
+      i += 2;
+      return v;
+    };
+
+    switch (flag.kind) {
+      case "boolean":
+        out[flag.id] = { kind: "boolean", enabled: true };
+        i += 1;
+        break;
+      case "tri-state":
+        out[flag.id] = { kind: "tri-state", state: off ? "off" : "on" };
+        i += 1;
+        break;
+      case "select": {
+        // The writer emits `--flag` alone for "bare" empty value, or
+        // `--flag <value>` for a selection. We can't tell without peeking
+        // at whether the next token is a known value.
+        const opts = flag.options ?? [];
+        const next = peek();
+        const valid = next !== undefined && opts.some((o) => o.value === next);
+        if (valid) {
+          out[flag.id] = { kind: "select", enabled: true, value: takeValue() };
+        } else {
+          out[flag.id] = { kind: "select", enabled: true, value: "" };
+          i += 1;
+        }
+        break;
+      }
+      case "text":
+        // `text` always emits a value; if there's no next token we treat as
+        // disabled (defensive).
+        if (peek() !== undefined) {
+          out[flag.id] = { kind: "text", enabled: true, value: takeValue() };
+        } else {
+          out[flag.id] = { kind: "text", enabled: false, value: "" };
+          i += 1;
+        }
+        break;
+      case "optional-text": {
+        // Optional-text: next token is the value if it doesn't look like a
+        // flag. We can't perfectly distinguish a deliberately-bare emission
+        // from one followed by an unrelated flag, but the writer's emission
+        // of bare is `flag.flag` alone with the next token being another
+        // catalog flag — so checking the lookup tells us.
+        const next = peek();
+        if (next === undefined || byFlag.has(next)) {
+          out[flag.id] = { kind: "optional-text", enabled: true, value: "" };
+          i += 1;
+        } else {
+          out[flag.id] = {
+            kind: "optional-text",
+            enabled: true,
+            value: takeValue(),
+          };
+        }
+        break;
+      }
+      case "text-list": {
+        // Each instance of the flag emits one value. Collect repeats.
+        const values: string[] = [];
+        // Consume the first pair.
+        if (peek() !== undefined) values.push(takeValue());
+        else i += 1;
+        // Consume additional pairs of the same flag.
+        while (i < args.length && args[i] === flag.flag) {
+          if (i + 1 < args.length) {
+            values.push(args[i + 1]);
+            i += 2;
+          } else {
+            i += 1;
+            break;
+          }
+        }
+        out[flag.id] = {
+          kind: "text-list",
+          enabled: true,
+          values,
+        };
+        break;
+      }
+      case "multi-with-custom": {
+        // Either bare `--debug` (no filter) or `--debug a,b,c`.
+        const next = peek();
+        if (next === undefined || byFlag.has(next)) {
+          out[flag.id] = {
+            kind: "multi-with-custom",
+            enabled: true,
+            picked: [],
+            custom: [],
+          };
+          i += 1;
+        } else {
+          const tokens = takeValue()
+            .split(",")
+            .map((s) => s.trim())
+            .filter((s) => s.length > 0);
+          const picklist = new Set(flag.picklist ?? []);
+          const picked: string[] = [];
+          const custom: string[] = [];
+          for (const t of tokens) {
+            if (picklist.has(t)) picked.push(t);
+            else custom.push(t);
+          }
+          out[flag.id] = {
+            kind: "multi-with-custom",
+            enabled: true,
+            picked,
+            custom,
+          };
+        }
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * High-level entry point: read shell rc text, parse the managed block, and
+ * return a populated flag map plus the parsed alias name. Returns null when
+ * there's no managed block to parse from.
+ */
+export function parseAliasFromRc(rcText: string): {
+  aliasName: string;
+  flags: Record<string, FlagValue>;
+} | null {
+  const parsed = parseManagedBlock(rcText);
+  if (!parsed || !parsed.aliasName) return null;
+  return {
+    aliasName: parsed.aliasName,
+    flags: argsToFlagValues(parsed.args),
+  };
+}