An app started from Finder or the Dock took only PATH from the login shell, so
variables exported in rc files never reached agents, language servers, run
configurations or debug targets. Claude Code configured for Bedrock through
CLAUDE_CODE_USE_BEDROCK / AWS_REGION in ~/.zshrc fell back to the Anthropic API
and failed with 403.
The shell's environment is read once at startup (in the background when PATH
comes from the cache) and kept in memory only, since it may hold secrets. Spawns
add the variables this process lacks before their own.
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