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Pull request overview
This PR updates the documentation to explain that the Developer extension’s shell tool can access environment variables, and cross-links the relevant docs so users can find details and security considerations.
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- Added a “Environment Variables in Shell Commands” section to the Developer MCP documentation.
- Added an “Environment Variable Passthrough” section to the environment variables guide with a cross-link to the MCP doc.
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| documentation/docs/mcp/developer-mcp.md | Documents env var availability for the Developer extension shell tool and includes a sensitive-info warning. |
| documentation/docs/guides/environment-variables.md | Adds a passthrough section and links to the detailed Developer MCP explanation. |
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* main: (46 commits) chore(deps): bump hono from 4.11.9 to 4.12.0 in /ui/desktop (#7369) Include 3rd-party license copy for JavaScript/CSS minified files (#7352) docs for reasoning env var (#7367) docs: update skills detail page to reference Goose Summon extension (#7350) fix(apps): restore MCP app sampling support reverted by #6933 (#7366) feat: TUI client of goose-acp (#7362) docs: agent variable (#7365) docs: pass env vars to shell (#7361) docs: update sandbox topic (#7336) feat: add local inference provider with llama.cpp backend and HuggingFace model management (#6933) Docs: claude code uses stream-json (#7358) Improve link confirmation modal (#7333) fix(ci): deflake smoke tests for Google models (#7344) feat: add Cerebras provider support (#7339) fix: skip whitespace-only text blocks in Anthropic message (#7343) fix(goose-acp): heap allocations (#7322) Remove trailing space from links (#7156) fix: detect low balance and prompt for top up (#7166) feat(apps): add support for MCP apps to sample (#7039) Typescript SDK for ACP extension methods (#7319) ...
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Summary
This PR documents environment variable passthrough to shell commands.
Documentation updates:
documentation/docs/guides/environment-variables.md:documentation/docs/mcp/developer-mcp.md:Type of Change
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