Shell Activation

vs activate <shell> prints shell code that wires your shell to the internal helper commands.

Bash

eval "$(vs activate bash)"

Zsh

eval "$(vs activate zsh)"

Fish

vs activate fish | source

Nushell

vs activate nushell | save --force ~/.config/nushell/vs.nu
source ~/.config/nushell/vs.nu

PowerShell

Invoke-Expression (& vs activate pwsh)

Clink

for /f "delims=" %i in ('vs activate clink') do %i

What activation does

Current activation scripts set or reuse VS_SESSION_ID, then delegate to internal helper commands so vs can compute environment changes for the current working directory.

Internal helpers currently include:

• vs __hook-env <shell>
• vs __resolve <plugin>

Treat these helpers as internal implementation details rather than stable public commands.