First finding of Eric's clean-room run, and the exact kind the
rehearsal exists for: init writes credentials to .env, but nothing
ever loaded it — the dev repo's committed .envrc + direnv did it
invisibly, and a fresh directory has neither. The web banner then
advised "run bggpipe init or load .env", circular counsel for someone
who just ran init.
A typer callback now loads ./.env before every command, using the
same parsing rules as the wizard that writes it (export prefixes,
quoted values, quoted-empty = unset). Real environment variables
always outrank the file, so direnv setups and explicit overrides keep
working unchanged. Verified in a scrubbed-environment clean room: the
credentials banner is gone with nothing but .env present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
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