[Bug] GitHub PR Manager fails in SSH remote sessions: gh spawned locally instead of over RemoteProcess

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jun 3, 2026 by derek-hobden

Bug Description
▎ Title: Desktop CI monitoring fails in SSH remote sessions — gh is run locally, not over SSH ▎ ▎ Summary: In a desktop SSH session to a remote host, the PR/CI monitor shows "CI checks unavailable — Failed to ▎ spawn /opt/homebrew/bin/gh: spawn /opt/homebrew/bin/gh ENOENT", even though gh is installed and authenticated on ▎ both machines. ▎ ▎ Root cause traced: git calls are tunneled over SSH (logged as [RemoteProcess] Spawning: git …, and they succeed). ▎ But [GitHubPrManager] spawns gh as a local child process on the laptop (stack trace in ▎ /Applications/Claude.app/...), with cwd set to the remote repo/worktree path, which doesn't exist locally. Node ▎ reports a missing cwd as spawn <command> ENOENT, so the binary gets blamed. Zero gh calls are routed through ▎ RemoteProcess. Reproduced: spawn('/opt/homebrew/bin/gh', …, {cwd: <nonexistent>}) → identical error; valid cwd ▎ works. ▎ ▎ Ask: Route gh through the same SSH RemoteProcess channel as git (remote gh binary, remote cwd, login-shell PATH — ▎ the remote non-interactive PATH is bare /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin). ▎ ▎ Evidence: ~/Library/Logs/Claude/main.log — [GitHubPrManager] … ENOENT repeating every ~5 min since 2026-05-13.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: 2.1.156
  • Feedback ID: 93c2e892-55c0-449e-b5d9-ee24158198dc

Errors

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