--bare fails with 'Not logged in' despite valid OAuth credentials

Summary

--bare fails with Not logged in · Please run /login even when valid OAuth credentials are present and working. The same command without --bare succeeds in the same shell, same cwd, same environment.

--bare is documented as "Minimal mode: skip hooks, LSP, plugins" — it appears to also skip loading the OAuth credential source.

Environment

• Claude Code 2.1.220 (installed via npm, @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
• Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
• Shell: Git Bash
• Subscription: Max (OAuth, not API key)
• ~/.claude/.credentials.json present, claudeAiOauth.expiresAt well in the future

Repro

$ claude -p 'say ok'
OK.

$ claude --bare -p 'say ok'
Not logged in · Please run /login

Same shell, same directory, same environment. Only difference is the --bare flag.

Also fails when the access token is supplied explicitly:

$ export CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN=<token from ~/.claude/.credentials.json>
$ claude --bare -p 'say ok'
Not logged in · Please run /login

Fails identically with and without -p, and from multiple working directories (including $HOME, outside any project).

Expected

--bare should authenticate using the same stored credentials as a normal run. Skipping hooks, LSP, and plugins should not affect auth.

Actual

--bare cannot see the existing credentials and reports the user as logged out. Running /login does not help — the credentials are already present and valid; --bare simply does not read them.

Notes

Not verified: whether --bare works with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set, since that path is a plain env-var read rather than the credential store. I don't have an API key to test with.

The error message is also misleading — it directs the user to /login, which is a no-op for this failure mode.