C2 — Startup Side-Effects

These run automatically without any user action. Disabling __fish_config_op_autoexec prevents all of them.

Component	Trigger	What it does
`Fisher bootstrap`	First shell only	Downloads and installs fisher
`Fisher update`	After bootstrap	Installs all fish_plugins entries
`Catppuccin Mocha theme`	First shell only	Applies theme via fish_config
`paru wrapper`	Every startup	Writes ~/.local/bin/paru wrapper
`yay wrapper`	Every startup	Writes ~/.local/bin/yay wrapper
`Python venv activation`	On every cd	Sources .venv/bin/activate.fish
`WakaTime command hook`	On every command	Reports to WakaTime API
`Auto-pull fast-forward`	On entering a repo	Background ff-only git pull
`user-dots symlink`	Every startup	Links $__fish_config_dir/user-dots to $__fish_user_dots_path

When C2 is disabled: no Fisher install, no theme application, no paru/yay wrapper generation, no automatic venv activation, no WakaTime reporting, no auto-pull (the PWD handler is never registered), and the user-dots convenience symlink is not created. The symlink is git-ignored and only ever managed as a symlink — a real file or directory at that path is left untouched. The symlink has its own opt-out independent of C2: set __fish_user_dots_symlink to a falsy value (or toggle “Dots link” off on the config-settings Paths page) to stop generating it and remove any existing link — honoured even when C2 is enabled. Managed by the __fish_user_dots_link helper. The first-run completion marker (__fish_config_first_run_complete) is still set so the init does not re-run on subsequent shells.

Python venv activation fires on every directory change. If a directory uses direnv (.envrc present), direnv takes priority and auto-venv is skipped for that directory.

Auto-pull fast-forwards opted-in repositories in the background when you cd into them. The fish-config repo is always covered; other repos are added with the auto-pull command (see its entry in the functions reference). It only ever fast-forwards a clean repo whose branch has an upstream — never rebases, merges, or overwrites work — so it is a no-op on dirty trees, divergent branches, or repos without a remote. The handler fires once per repo entry (not on every sub-directory cd). The registry is machine-local at $__fish_user_dots_path/auto-pull.list (defaults to ~/.config/.user-dots/fish/auto-pull.list) and is never committed.