There is a custom shell functionality under add command -> shell command, however it’s not perfect so you have to see whether it works for your cases
I am not sure whether direnv works when you create a custom shell environment in xpipe with an init script of cd , I can test that
About connecting to docker containers and other hosts, you can in theory connect as any user. However some parts like an on demand sudo elevation is currently bugged, but will work soon.
Yeah I can imagine that using it in a tiling window manager is not very pleasant, I honestly did not take these into account when designing it. However, I plan to get rid of separate dialog windows and merge them with the main window.