cli: match bunx/node invocation names case-insensitively

[robobun]

Fixes #36826
Supersedes #38884 (same fix, Windows only and without tests; one of its unit-test assertions is folded in here with credit)

Problem

• On Windows, invoking the installed bunx.exe as bunx.EXE fails with error: Script not found "sort-package-json"; the same file invoked as bunx.exe works. A node.EXE shim misclassifies the same way.
• Windows resolves executables case-insensitively and PATHEXT commonly lists .EXE in upper case, so tools that resolve commands via PATH x PATHEXT legitimately produce bunx.EXE as argv[0]. Bun takes argv[0] verbatim from GetCommandLineW (argv_storage in src/bun_core/util.rs), so that casing reaches the classifier.
• Cause: is_bun_x / is_node in src/runtime/cli/mod.rs (the only argv[0] classification in the tree; both which() and the Cli::start fast path go through them) compare with the case-sensitive strings::ends_with, so bunx.EXE misses both the bunx.exe and the bunx suffix and Bun falls through to plain bun mode.

Fix

• is_bun_x / is_node now share one predicate, invoked_as(argv0, name): strip a trailing .exe on Windows (ignoring case), then suffix-match name ignoring ASCII case. This replaces the two #[cfg]-split literal lists and is where the next spelling or predicate goes (cli: detect bunx when argv[0] ends with bunx.exe on posix #35653 wants .exe on posix too and the debug link name; it becomes a one-line change here).
• Accepted names are unchanged apart from case: the match is still suffix-only and the posix branch still does not accept .exe (that is cli: detect bunx when argv[0] ends with bunx.exe on posix #35653's bug, left to it on purpose), so the only new inputs recognized are case variants of names already accepted. Applying the case fold on every platform is deliberate: macOS filesystems are case-insensitive by default, so BUNX foo resolves to the same binary there too, and on Linux an argv[0] ending in BUNX / NODE can only be a deliberately named link to Bun itself.
• strings::ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii is the install crate's private has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case (added in install: pnpm parity — dedupe, prune, pm licenses, audit fix, add --filter/--catalog, nested overrides, transitive update, and workspace fixes #38333 for .TGZ tarballs) promoted to bun_core unchanged; is_tarball now calls the shared copy, so there is one implementation.
• Verified:
  • test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts ("detects bunx mode when invoked as ...") and test/cli/run/as-node.test.ts ("detects node mode when invoked as ..."): on Windows they copy the binary to a lowercase bunx.exe / node.exe and invoke it as bunx.EXE / BUNX.EXE / node.EXE / NODE.EXE (exercising the .exe strip); on posix they invoke an uppercase symlink. The four posix cases fail on the released 1.4.0 and pass with this branch on linux-x64; the Windows cases passed in CI on the previous revision of this branch.
  • @kjanat (issue reporter) ran the Windows x64 artifact of an earlier revision against the original repro on Windows 11: bunx.EXE and BUNX.EXE both work, the current canary fails (see review below). The later revisions only restructure the predicate; the Windows CI tests above cover the same invocations.
  • Tarball suffix behavior is covered by the existing bun-add.test.ts ("uppercase .TGZ"), bun-install.test.ts ("tarball path ending in X.TGZ") and pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts tarball cases, all passing with this branch.
  • ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii_handles_empty_and_oversized_suffixes unit test covers case variants, an empty suffix, an oversized suffix, and a same-length non-matching suffix.

Background

• Bun ships one binary; bunx and the node shim are links or copies of it. At startup which() in src/runtime/cli/mod.rs looks at argv[0] and, if the name ends in bunx (or bunx.exe on Windows), runs as bun x; if it ends in node (or node.exe), runs in node-compat mode. Anything else is plain bun, which treats the first argument as a script name, hence "Script not found".
• PATHEXT is the Windows list of executable extensions (.COM;.EXE;.BAT;...) that shells and launchers append to a bare command name while searching PATH; the resulting path keeps whatever casing the PATHEXT entry had.
• Out of scope, each with its own PR: accepting bunx.exe on posix and the bunx-debug link name (cli: detect bunx when argv[0] ends with bunx.exe on posix #35653), and the exact-basename is_npm / is_npx predicates (run: shim npm/npx alongside node in the --bun PATH dir #35474).

Earlier revision of this PR

The first revision kept the two #[cfg]-split suffix lists and swapped the four strings::ends_with calls for ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii, implemented over eql_case_insensitive_ascii(.., check_len = true). It was behaviorally identical to the current revision; the restructure folds the four call sites into invoked_as and reuses the install crate's existing implementation of the helper instead of adding a second one.

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Walkthrough

The change adds ASCII case-insensitive suffix matching. Bunx and Node detection use it for executable names, and tarball detection uses it for archive suffixes. Cross-platform tests cover differently cased executable names.

Changes

Case-insensitive suffix matching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared suffix matching and consumers src/bun_core/string/immutable.rs, src/runtime/cli/mod.rs, src/install/dependency.rs	Adds ASCII-insensitive trailing-byte matching. CLI detection handles Windows .exe suffixes. Tarball detection uses the shared helper for supported archive suffixes.
Cross-platform invocation regression tests test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts, test/cli/run/as-node.test.ts	Tests differently cased bunx and Node executable names on Windows and POSIX systems.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#36826 — Covers the case-sensitive bunx.EXE invocation misclassification addressed by this change.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38884 — Shares the case-insensitive executable detection logic and related suffix-handling changes.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, cirospaciari

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In `@src/bun_core/string/immutable.rs`:
- Around line 844-847: Update ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii to return true
immediately when suffix is empty, while preserving false for suffixes longer
than self_ and existing case-insensitive matching otherwise; add tests covering
empty and oversized suffixes.

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[claude]

LGTM — small, well-scoped fix with matching unit and integration coverage.

What was reviewed:

• ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii: verified against eql_case_insensitive_ascii — check_len = true handles the empty-suffix case (CodeRabbit's concern) and the pre-sliced tail is always equal-length, so semantics are unchanged for the non-empty case.
• is_bun_x / is_node: only widens the suffix match to case-insensitive; no new false-positive class beyond the pre-existing suffix-only behavior.
• Tests: hermetic (bunx --help hits exit_with_usage without touching the registry; node test asserts the "Missing script" error path), and both would fail on the unfixed build.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes #36826: on Windows, PATHEXT resolution can produce bunx.EXE / node.EXE as argv[0], and the case-sensitive strings::ends_with in is_bun_x / is_node failed to classify these, so Bun fell through to plain-bun mode. The fix adds strings::ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii (a 4-line mirror of the existing starts_with_case_insensitive_ascii) and swaps both predicates to use it on all platforms. A Rust unit test covers the helper's edge cases (empty suffix, oversized suffix, mixed-case match), and two integration tests exercise the actual argv[0] classification via a copied bunx.exe invoked as bunx.EXE/BUNX.EXE on Windows and an uppercase symlink on posix.

Security risks

None. The change only affects how Bun classifies its own argv[0] into bunx / node / plain-bun mode. No user input parsing, no filesystem/network access, no privilege boundary.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. The helper is a trivial composition of existing primitives (eql_case_insensitive_ascii with an equal-length tail slice); I traced its check_len = true path in src/bun_core/lib.rs and confirmed it returns true for empty inputs before hitting the non-empty debug_assert!s (the CodeRabbit finding, addressed in b266676). The predicate change is a pure widening of the match set to ASCII case-folded suffixes — the only conceivable behavioral risk (a case-sensitive-FS symlink named NODE that the user did not want treated as node-mode) is implausible and explicitly reasoned about in the PR body.

Other factors

• All prior bot feedback (comment-cop long-comment nags, CodeRabbit's empty-suffix debug-assert) is resolved in the current diff.
• The bunx integration test is network-free: I traced BunxCommand::Options::parse and confirmed --help with no package name hits exit_with_usage() → tag_print_help(BunxCommand) (stderr, exit 1) before any registry call. The node test reuses the exact assertion shape of the existing "no args with piped stdin" test just above it.
• No CODEOWNERS entries cover the touched paths.
• The PR body flags a potential trivial rebase against #35653 (independent change to the same predicate); nothing to act on here.

[kjanat]

Tested the Windows x64 artifact from the current head (9e5967f) on Windows 11 25H2.

# bunx bun-pr 36827
# bun-36827.exe --revision

1.4.0-canary.1+9e5967f77

Manual A/B result using the invocation casing that triggered #36826:

Bun latest canary (1.4.0-canary.1+52af83272) as bunx.EXE:
error: Script not found "sort-package-json"
exit 1

PR artifact (1.4.0-canary.1+9e5967f77) as bunx.EXE:
sort-package-json 4.0.0
exit 0

PR artifact as BUNX.EXE:
sort-package-json 4.0.0
exit 0

Fix verified on Windows. LGTM.

[robobun]

Thanks for verifying the artifact on Windows 11 with the original repro, much appreciated.

[claude]

LGTM — straightforward swap from case-sensitive to case-insensitive suffix matching for argv[0] classification.

What was reviewed:

• ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii mirrors the existing starts_with_* sibling; check_len = true correctly handles the empty-suffix case that would otherwise trip the comparator's debug asserts (verified against eql_case_insensitive_ascii in src/bun_core/lib.rs).
• Both is_bun_x / is_node call sites updated, and the fast-path prescan in command::start() reuses the same predicates so is covered.
• Considered false-positive widening on posix: the pre-existing check already matched any argv[0] ending in lowercase bunx/node, so this only adds case variants of the same suffix.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes #36826: bunx.EXE / node.EXE (uppercase extension via Windows PATHEXT resolution) were misclassified as plain bun because is_bun_x / is_node used case-sensitive strings::ends_with on argv[0]. Adds a new strings::ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii helper (5 lines, mirrors the existing starts_with_case_insensitive_ascii immediately above it) with a unit test, and swaps the two predicates in src/runtime/cli/mod.rs to use it. Adds integration tests for both bunx and node mode detection with case-varied invocation names on Windows (copy + case-varied argv) and posix (case-varied symlink).

Security risks

None. This only affects how Bun classifies its own argv[0] to decide bunx/node emulation vs plain bun mode. No untrusted input parsing, no auth/crypto/permissions.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. The runtime change is a mechanical helper swap in two small predicates; the new helper is a 3-line wrapper over the existing eql_case_insensitive_ascii. I verified the comparator's check_len = true path in src/bun_core/lib.rs:1334-1347: it early-returns true for two empty slices and false for length mismatch before hitting the non-empty debug asserts, so the empty-suffix case (raised and resolved in the CodeRabbit thread) is safe. The sliced first argument is equal-length to suffix by construction, so check_len = true is behaviourally identical to false for all non-empty suffixes. I also checked that the argv fast-path in command::start() calls the same is_node/is_bun_x predicates, so no site was missed.

Other factors

• All review threads (comment-cop and CodeRabbit's empty-suffix concern) are resolved with follow-up commits already in the diff.
• The unit test covers the exact use-case strings, empty suffix, empty haystack, oversized suffix, and a same-length mismatch (".exe" vs "bunx").
• Integration tests assert the discriminating behaviour (bunx --help → stderr usage + exit 1 vs plain bun help → stdout + exit 0; bare node with piped stdin → "Missing script" vs plain bun evaluating empty stdin), so they fail for the right reason on the unfixed build.
• False-positive risk on posix is unchanged in kind: the old code already matched any argv[0] ending in lowercase bunx/node; this only widens to ASCII case variants of the same suffix, which for a bun-linked binary can only be intentional.

[claude]

LGTM — small, well-scoped fix with good coverage.

What was reviewed:

• ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii: verified check_len = true against the eql_case_insensitive_ascii impl in src/bun_core/lib.rs — the tail slice is equal-length by construction, so the empty-suffix case returns true and the debug asserts are unreachable; unit test covers empty/oversized/mismatched suffixes.
• is_bun_x/is_node: confirmed these are the only argv[0] classifiers and both call sites (which() and the start() fast-path guard) go through them, so the fix covers every path.
• Integration tests: assertions distinguish bunx/node mode from plain-bun mode by observable output/exit-code differences (not just absence of a crash), and the posix symlink / Windows lowercase-file-uppercase-invocation setup matches the reported repro.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Four files: a new 4-line ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii helper in bun_core/string/immutable.rs (mirroring the existing starts_with_case_insensitive_ascii), a mechanical swap of strings::ends_with → strings::ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii at four call sites in is_bun_x/is_node in src/runtime/cli/mod.rs, a Rust unit test for the helper, and two integration tests (bunx.test.ts, as-node.test.ts) exercising uppercase invocation names on both Windows and posix.

Security risks

None. This only affects how Bun classifies its own argv[0] at startup. The match remains suffix-only exactly as before; only ASCII case variants of the already-accepted names (bunx, bunx.exe, node, node.exe) are newly recognized. No user input parsing, no filesystem/network access, no auth/crypto.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. The helper is trivial and sits next to its starts_with sibling; I traced check_len = true through eql_case_insensitive_ascii (lib.rs:1334) to confirm the equal-length tail slice hits the a.is_empty() → true early return for empty suffixes and never reaches the debug_assert!(!a.is_empty()) — the CodeRabbit concern was correctly addressed. The CLI change is a pure comparator swap with no control-flow changes; both the which() classifier and the start() fast-path guard (!is_node(argv0) && !is_bun_x(argv0)) use the same two predicates, so there's no missed sibling site.

Other factors

• All prior review threads (comment-cop ×2, CodeRabbit empty-suffix) are resolved with follow-up commits.
• The issue reporter verified the Windows x64 artifact against the original repro.
• Tests follow harness conventions: it.concurrent.each/test.each, tempDir, bunEnv/bunExe, drain stdout/stderr/exited concurrently, assert output before exit code, and the assertions are strong (positive toContain("Usage: bunx") / toContain("Missing script") plus a negative check on the plain-bun output), so they fail on the unfixed build for the right reason.
• Applying the change on all platforms (not just Windows) is justified in the description and is the conservative choice — an uppercase symlink to Bun on Linux can only be a deliberate bunx/node shim.

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[robobun]

Status (Aug 15): this PR is the one being kept for #36826; #38884, which fixed the same thing Windows-only and without tests, is closed in its favor.

Changes since the reporter's verification of 9e5967f:

• merged current main (no conflicts);
• is_bun_x / is_node now share invoked_as (Windows strips a trailing .exe, then a case-insensitive suffix match) instead of two #[cfg]-split literal lists; accepted names are unchanged apart from case;
• ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii is the install crate's existing has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case promoted to bun_core, and is_tarball uses the shared copy;
• one extra unit-test assertion folded in from fix: recognize bunx.EXE/node.EXE argv0 on Windows (case-insensitive) #38884 (credited).

Reproduced on linux-x64 with the posix cases of the two new tests: all four fail on the released 1.4.0, pass with this branch. The Windows cases (bunx.EXE, BUNX.EXE, node.EXE, NODE.EXE) run in CI. The two failures in build #97924 (test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts on Windows, test-http-chunk-problem.js under ASAN) are unrelated to this change and have been reported separately.

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[claude]

LGTM — focused fix that makes argv[0] bunx/node classification case-insensitive.

What was reviewed:

• invoked_as preserves the accepted name set apart from case; Windows .exe strip + suffix match is equivalent to the old two-literal check for existing inputs.
• ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii uses stdlib eq_ignore_ascii_case (handles empty slices) and is byte-identical to the removed has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case, so is_tarball behavior is unchanged.
• bun_paths::strings re-exports bun_core::strings::*, so dependency.rs reaches the promoted helper.
• The two CI failures (bake/deinitialization, test-http-chunk-problem) are unrelated to CLI dispatch or string helpers.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes #36826: on Windows, bunx.EXE (upper-case extension, as produced by PATHEXT resolution) was misclassified as plain bun because is_bun_x/is_node used case-sensitive suffix matching on argv[0]. Five files touched:

• src/bun_core/string/immutable.rs: adds ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii (a 1-line helper over stdlib eq_ignore_ascii_case) + a unit test covering case variants, empty suffix, oversized suffix, and same-length mismatch.
• src/install/dependency.rs: deletes the private has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case (byte-identical to the new shared helper) and points is_tarball at the shared copy — pure dedup, no behavioral change.
• src/runtime/cli/mod.rs: replaces the two #[cfg]-split is_bun_x/is_node bodies with a shared invoked_as(argv0, name) that (on Windows) strips a trailing case-insensitive .exe then does a case-insensitive suffix match. Uses cfg!(windows) so both arms type-check on every target.
• Two test files: test.each over case variants, copying/symlinking the binary and asserting the correct mode's help output/exit code.

Security risks

None. This is startup-time classification of the process's own argv[0]. No untrusted input, no filesystem/network reach. The accepted-name set strictly widens by ASCII case only; on posix an upper-cased argv[0] can only come from a deliberate link to the bun binary.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. ~20 net production lines, all in cold single-call CLI startup code. The refactor is behavior-preserving for existing inputs (verified by tracing: old Windows ends_with("bunx.exe") || ends_with("bunx") ⟺ new strip-.exe-then-match-bunx for every previously-accepted input). The is_tarball change swaps one identical implementation for another. The shared helper is reachable from dependency.rs via bun_paths::strings (which glob-re-exports bun_core::strings::*).

Other factors

• Test coverage is solid: unit test hits the helper's edge cases; integration tests cover both bunx and node modes on both platforms and assert the discriminating output (bunx help on stderr/exit 1 vs. bun help on stdout/exit 0; "Missing script" for node mode). PR description confirms the posix cases fail on released 1.4.0 and pass here; the issue reporter verified the Windows artifact on the original repro.
• All prior review-bot comments (comment-cop on doc-comment length, CodeRabbit on empty-suffix handling) were addressed in earlier commits and are resolved; the final helper uses eq_ignore_ascii_case directly, which has no empty-slice hazard.
• No CODEOWNERS coverage for these paths. The two CI failures in build #97924 (bake/deinitialization.test.ts segfault on Windows, test-http-chunk-problem.js ASAN) are in unrelated subsystems that this diff does not touch.
• Follows the repo's "one implementation, delete the duplicate in the same PR" and "grep for the in-tree helper" guidance.

[claude]

LGTM — small, well-scoped fix with tests and reporter verification. The inline nit about test.concurrent.each + spawnSync is minor (2 fast-failing subprocess cases) and doesn't affect correctness.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes #36826: bunx.EXE / node.EXE (uppercase extension, as produced by Windows PATHEXT resolution) were misclassified as plain bun because is_bun_x/is_node used case-sensitive suffix matching. The fix:

• Adds strings::ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii in bun_core (3 lines, stdlib eq_ignore_ascii_case), byte-identical to the private has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case it replaces in src/install/dependency.rs.
• Consolidates is_bun_x/is_node into a shared invoked_as(argv0, name) that strips a trailing .exe on Windows (case-insensitively), then suffix-matches name case-insensitively.
• Adds a unit test for the helper and integration tests in bunx.test.ts / as-node.test.ts for case-variant invocations on both Windows and posix.

Security risks

None. The change only affects how Bun classifies its own argv[0] (which is the path to the Bun binary itself). It only expands accepted names to case variants of names already accepted; on Linux an uppercase BUNX/NODE argv[0] can only be a deliberately-named link to Bun. No user input parsing, no auth/crypto/permissions.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. This is CLI startup code that runs on every invocation, but the change is a strict expansion of a suffix match (case-sensitive → case-insensitive) with no new control flow beyond the shared predicate. I traced invoked_as against the previous behavior for bunx.EXE, BUNX.EXE, bun.exe (correctly rejected), and posix BUNX — all correct. The is_tarball refactor is pure code motion (byte-identical implementation). The cfg!(windows) form (vs #[cfg]) means both branches type-check on all platforms.

Other factors

• All prior review threads are resolved: three comment-cop long-comment flags (trimmed), CodeRabbit's empty-suffix debug-assert concern (moot in the final version, which uses stdlib eq_ignore_ascii_case directly and is unit-tested for (b"", b"") / (b"bunx", b"")), and CodeRabbit's test.concurrent suggestion (applied).
• The issue reporter verified an earlier revision of the Windows artifact against the original repro; subsequent commits only restructured the predicate and are covered by the Windows CI tests.
• The one bug-hunter finding is a nit: test.concurrent.each with a synchronous Bun.spawnSync body provides no actual concurrency. With only 2 cases that spawn a subprocess which immediately errors, the wall-clock cost is negligible and the test is functionally correct. Not a blocker.

[claude]

LGTM — the one inline finding is a zero-impact test-harness nit (undrained default stdout pipe; the child writes at most ~2KB so it cannot deadlock), not a blocker.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR makes the argv[0] classifier that decides between bun / bunx / node modes case-insensitive, fixing #36826 where bunx.EXE on Windows fell through to plain bun mode. The change touches five files: ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii is added to bun_core::strings (promoted verbatim from the install crate's private has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case, which is deleted and its one caller is_tarball rewired); is_bun_x / is_node in src/runtime/cli/mod.rs are collapsed into a shared invoked_as helper that strips a trailing .exe on Windows then suffix-matches case-insensitively; and two integration tests exercise mixed-case invocations on both Windows and posix.

Security risks

None. The classifier only widens which casings of bunx / node are recognised for a binary the user is already executing; no new inputs reach any parser, and the accepted name set is otherwise unchanged. The is_tarball rewiring is a pure refactor to the identical implementation.

Level of scrutiny

Medium — src/runtime/cli/mod.rs is the startup dispatch path, but the diff there is a 15-line local refactor of two three-line predicates whose only callers (which() and the Cli::start fast-path prescan) both go through the new helper. I verified: the cfg!(windows) form compiles both arms on all targets (safer than the old #[cfg] split); the posix branch still does not strip .exe (intentionally left to #35653); empty/oversized suffixes are handled by the length guard and covered by the new unit test; and there are no sibling is_npm/is_npx predicates in the tree yet that would need the same treatment.

Other factors

All prior review threads (comment-cop, CodeRabbit's empty-suffix debug-assert concern, the test.concurrent / spawnSync round) are resolved and the fixes are visible in the current diff. The issue reporter verified the Windows artifact against the original repro. The one remaining inline finding from this run — as-node.test.ts leaves the default stdout: "pipe" undrained — is a harness-convention nit only: the regressed-build path writes ~2KB of help text, far under the OS pipe buffer, so it cannot deadlock and the test remains correct either way.

[claude]

LGTM — case-insensitive argv[0] suffix match, with the install crate's existing helper promoted to bun_core.

What was reviewed:

• invoked_as is behavior-preserving vs. the old #[cfg]-split checks apart from ASCII case (traced bunx/bunx.exe/bunx.EXE/mynode.exe on both platforms; posix still rejects .exe).
• ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii is byte-identical to the removed has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case; bun_paths::strings re-exports bun_core::strings::* so is_tarball resolves to the shared copy. Empty/oversized-suffix edge cases handled by stdlib eq_ignore_ascii_case and covered by the new unit test.
• Both new integration tests now use async Bun.spawn and drain stdout+stderr+exited concurrently (my earlier two inline nits addressed in b1a87eb / c906577).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes #36826: on Windows, invoking bunx.EXE (uppercase extension, as PATHEXT commonly produces) was misclassified as plain bun because is_bun_x/is_node used case-sensitive strings::ends_with. The fix:

• src/runtime/cli/mod.rs (-15/+10): is_bun_x and is_node now share invoked_as(argv0, name), which strips a trailing .exe on Windows (case-insensitively) then does a case-insensitive suffix match. Replaces two #[cfg]-split literal lists.
• src/bun_core/string/immutable.rs (+5 impl, +20 test): adds ends_with_case_insensitive_ascii — a byte-for-byte promotion of the install crate's private has_suffix_ignore_ascii_case.
• src/install/dependency.rs (-8/+3): is_tarball switches from the private helper to the shared one (identical implementation).
• Two new integration tests covering bunx.EXE/BUNX.EXE/node.EXE/NODE.EXE on Windows and uppercase symlinks on posix.

Security risks

None. This is argv[0] classification at CLI startup — no untrusted-input parsing beyond what already existed, no path traversal, no auth/crypto. The only new inputs accepted are ASCII-case variants of names already accepted; on posix an argv[0] ending in BUNX/NODE can only be a deliberately named link to Bun itself.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. The production change is ~15 net lines: a suffix-match predicate swapped from case-sensitive to case-insensitive, plus helper deduplication. I traced the new invoked_as against the old per-platform branches for the relevant inputs (bunx, bunx.exe, bunx.EXE, BUNX.EXE, mynode.exe, bare bunx on Windows) and confirmed it's behavior-preserving apart from case; posix still does not strip .exe (deliberately left to #35653). The cfg!(windows) (runtime-const) vs #[cfg(windows)] (attribute) change means both arms type-check on all platforms, which is a net positive for cross-platform builds. The promoted helper uses stdlib <[u8]>::eq_ignore_ascii_case, which handles empty slices correctly (unit-tested); bun_paths::strings re-exports bun_core::strings::* so dependency.rs picks it up.

Other factors

• All prior review feedback is addressed and resolved: comment-cop (long comments trimmed), CodeRabbit (empty-suffix edge case, test.concurrent.each), and my two inline nits from earlier runs (spawnSync → async spawn in b1a87eb; drain stdout in c906577).
• The issue reporter verified an earlier revision's Windows artifact against the original repro; subsequent commits only restructured the predicate and tests.
• Tests follow harness conventions: tempDir, bunEnv spread, async spawn with concurrent pipe draining, per-case isolation via setup()/tempDir.
• Existing tarball-suffix coverage (bun-add.test.ts uppercase .TGZ, etc.) exercises the unchanged is_tarball path.

[robobun]

CI status: the remaining red lanes in build 98468 are all known-flaky tests unrelated to this diff (each failed in the parallel batch and passed alone, or passed on retry). The new bunx/as-node tests pass on every lane. The diff is ready for review.