goose-desktop-env-fix

goose-desktop-env-fix is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rhtevan/agentfs. It costs 20 tokens per session (4,370 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A fix for Goose Desktop’s shell environment, which is the collection of paths and variables available to command-line programs. It makes shell commands see tools and settings normally loaded from the user’s shell startup files.

In plain words
What is it for?
For repairing Goose Desktop command execution when development tools or custom environment variables are not found.
Why use it?
Goose Desktop may start commands without the user’s usual PATH and environment, so installed tools such as cargo, Java, or OpenShift commands can appear missing. The instructions address both shell startup behavior and a Fedora/GNOME desktop-file override.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit For repairing Goose Desktop command execution when development tools or custom environment variables are not found.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rhtevan/agentfs/goose-desktop-env-fix
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add rhtevan/agentfs --skill goose-desktop-env-fix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhtevan/agentfs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,370 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.04370
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02185
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00874
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00437

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3563cad82173, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goose-desktop-env-fix scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

like `bash`, `python3`, `curl`, `git` are NOT wrapped.
skills/goose-desktop-env-fix/SKILL.md · 439 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 439 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goose Desktop Environment Fix

Fix the Goose Desktop shell tool so that shell commands run with the full user environment — including devbox/nix-installed tools, crc/oc, cargo, sdkman, and custom exports.

Problem

Goose Desktop's shell tool runs non-interactive, non-login bash shells (bash -c "<command>"). Bash only sources ~/.bashrc for interactive shells, so all user environment setup is missing:

Shell Type Files Sourced
Login + Interactive ~/.bash_profile~/.bashrc
Interactive (non-login) ~/.bashrc
Non-interactive, non-login Only $BASH_ENV (if set)

Goose Desktop falls into the third category, resulting in:

  • Bare PATH (missing devbox/nix, cargo, crc/oc, sdkman paths)
  • Missing environment variables
  • Tools like gh, oc, hey, java not found

Additionally, Goose Desktop on Fedora/GNOME may have a user-level .desktop file override at ~/.local/share/applications/Goose.desktop that hardcodes PATH via Exec=env PATH=..., preventing environment.d variables from reaching the Goose process.

Root Causes

  1. Bash sourcing rules — non-interactive shells don't source ~/.bashrc
  2. Nix double-source guardnix-daemon.sh sets __ETC_PROFILE_NIX_SOURCED=1 and skips if already set. The GNOME session sets this during login, but the Goose .desktop file overrides PATH without nix paths, so nix is "sourced" but its paths are missing.
  3. Desktop file override — the user-level .desktop file's Exec=env PATH=... line overrides session environment variables set via ~/.config/environment.d/
  4. Devbox shellenv recursive fork bombdevbox global shellenv spawns a bash subprocess to compute the environment. That subprocess sources ~/.bashrc (via BASH_ENV or the goose-shell wrapper), which calls devbox global shellenv again, creating an infinite recursion. This rapidly spawns thousands of processes (observed: 5,763+), consuming CPU and risking system instability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 439 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 439 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 3563cad82173

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goose-desktop-env-fix is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhtevan/agentfs (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 4,370 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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