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Bash language support

What it does

Bash and shell scripts (.sh, .bash) now receive full language support: symbol extraction via tree-sitter and LSP navigation via bash-language-server.

Previously Bash was detection-only — file contents were indexed for semantic search but no symbols were extracted and no LSP server was started.

Capabilities

CapabilityAvailable
Semantic search indexing✅
symbols / symbols✅ (function definitions)
symbol_at / references✅ (requires LSP)

Setup

Install bash-language-server:

npm install -g bash-language-server

No project configuration needed — codescout detects .sh / .bash files and starts the server automatically.

Known limits

  • bash-language-server is invoked with start (positional argument), not --stdio — the invocation differs from most other LSP servers.
  • Symbol extraction covers function_definition nodes only. Variable declarations and sourced scripts are not indexed as symbols.
  • Large generated shell scripts may produce many small symbol chunks in semantic search results.