fix(shell): raise macOS file descriptor capacity - #1
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GUI terminals inherit launchd's 256-file soft limit, which starves watcher-heavy development stacks such as moon and Next.js. Raise the interactive shell limit within the kernel hard ceiling before tools start. Co-Authored-By: Nova (GPT-5.4) <noreply@openai.com>
Match shellint's formatter output so the macOS file-limit guard remains stable under repository formatting checks. Co-Authored-By: Nova (GPT-5.4) <noreply@openai.com>
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What changed
Raise the macOS shell soft file descriptor limit to 65,536 before development tools start. The guard respects a lower kernel hard limit and leaves non-macOS shells unchanged.
Why
GUI terminals inherit launchd's 256-file soft limit. Moon and Next.js can exhaust that limit while running their normal workspace watchers, causing unrelated state writes to fail with
Too many open files.Validation
./bin/shellint --check sh/env.shgit diff --checkBlast radius
The change affects new macOS Bash and Zsh sessions only. Existing terminals need
exec zshor a fresh shell before the higher limit applies.