diff --git a/rootfs/home/developer/.bash_aliases b/rootfs/home/developer/.bash_aliases
index ca9e902..02e1bc4 100644
--- a/rootfs/home/developer/.bash_aliases
+++ b/rootfs/home/developer/.bash_aliases
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
 # To override, bind-mount your host's ~/.bash_aliases over this file
 # via docker-compose.yml.
 
+# ── Host-shared shell customizations (devbox-shell bridge) ───────────
+# If the host bind-mounts a directory at ~/.config/devbox-shell/ (the
+# recommended pattern for sharing aliases/PATH/utilities between host
+# and container), source the bash_aliases file from it. This survives
+# --force-recreate because it's baked into the image's skel, not the
+# container's writable layer. Hosts that don't use this pattern are
+# unaffected — the test silently skips if the file doesn't exist.
+[ -r "$HOME/.config/devbox-shell/bash_aliases" ] && . "$HOME/.config/devbox-shell/bash_aliases"
+
 # ── History persistence and quality ──────────────────────────────────
 # The named volume devbox-shell-history is mounted at ~/.cache/bash
 # so history survives container recreation.