From b46e0edebe29762675bf98e0ea0b50289990627f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hunter Bown <hmbown@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 15:09:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat(v0.8.44): add codew convenience alias binary
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Permanent short-form shim — forwards silently to codewhale.
Six fewer keystrokes, no deprecation warning. Ships alongside
codewhale and the legacy deepseek alias.
---
 crates/cli/Cargo.toml                   |  5 +++
 crates/cli/src/bin/codew_legacy_shim.rs | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 crates/cli/src/bin/codew_legacy_shim.rs

diff --git a/crates/cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
index 21fcb9e5..8cfeabc9 100644
--- a/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ description = "Agentic terminal facade for open-source and open-weight coding mo
 name = "codewhale"
 path = "src/main.rs"
 
+# Short-form convenience alias — forwards to `codewhale` silently.
+[[bin]]
+name = "codew"
+path = "src/bin/codew_legacy_shim.rs"
+
 # Legacy alias — forwards to `codewhale` and prints a deprecation notice.
 # Will be removed in v0.9.0.
 [[bin]]
diff --git a/crates/cli/src/bin/codew_legacy_shim.rs b/crates/cli/src/bin/codew_legacy_shim.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..165e05a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/cli/src/bin/codew_legacy_shim.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+//! Convenience `codew` alias.
+//!
+//! Forwards argv to the `codewhale` dispatcher silently. This is a
+//! permanent short-form alias — six fewer keystrokes, same binary.
+
+use std::env;
+use std::process::Command;
+
+fn main() {
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args_os()
+        .skip(1)
+        .map(|a| a.to_string_lossy().into_owned())
+        .collect();
+
+    let status = match spawn_codewhale(&args) {
+        Ok(s) => s,
+        Err(e) => {
+            eprintln!(
+                "error: failed to spawn `codewhale`: {e}. Is it on PATH? \
+                 Install with `cargo install codewhale-cli` or via npm/Homebrew."
+            );
+            std::process::exit(127);
+        }
+    };
+    std::process::exit(status.code().unwrap_or(1));
+}
+
+fn spawn_codewhale(args: &[String]) -> std::io::Result<std::process::ExitStatus> {
+    // Try PATH first.
+    match Command::new("codewhale").args(args).status() {
+        Ok(s) => return Ok(s),
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {}
+        Err(e) => return Err(e),
+    }
+
+    // On Windows, after an update the sibling `codewhale.exe` may be in the
+    // same directory as this shim but not on PATH (#2006).
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    {
+        if let Ok(exe_path) = env::current_exe() {
+            if let Some(dir) = exe_path.parent() {
+                let sibling = dir.join("codewhale.exe");
+                if sibling.is_file() {
+                    return Command::new(sibling).args(args).status();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Err(std::io::Error::new(
+        std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound,
+        "codewhale not found on PATH or in sibling directory",
+    ))
+}