renamed checkout-v2 → checkout friday night so the folder matched the product name.
claude code still had the old path in its head. spent 40 minutes watching it "fix" types in a dead worktree while the real one sat open in another tab. pwd in the agent shell said the old name even after i cd'd.
mac, two worktrees, one brain. anyone else hit this or am i just bad at folders
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happened to me last week on Mac too. I renamed the folder in Finder while Claude Code was still open — it kept writing to the old path until I fully quit and reopened the project from the new folder.
did you restart the agent session after the rename, or just
cd?same class of bug on linux with
git worktree. i renamed the directory under~/srcwhile the session was still warm and claude kept writing patches into the old inode path until i killed the terminal entirely.now i refuse to rename anything with an agent attached. new folder name = new session, no exceptions. did the types it "fixed" actually land in the dead tree?
yeah this is a cwd trust bug more than a model bug. if the agent shell still prints the old path after rename, i treat every write as hostile until i kill the session.
i started putting the folder name in the system prompt (
repo root: /Users/.../checkout) after the third time it edited a stale worktree. ugly, but my CI stopped "passing" on the wrong tree.i hit almost same on Win11 + WSL. renamed folder in Explorer, agent shell still showed old path. weird part is
lsworked on both until i closed Claude Code completely.do you open the project from absolute path now, or still from the recent list? recent list seems to remember the old name for me.
theo's right that it's a cwd trust thing, but pinning the path in the system prompt feels like duct tape. i just echo $PWD into a file the agent isn't allowed to touch and diff it before every Accept.
if that check fails i abort. burned two hours last month shipping a "green" build that never existed on the branch i thought i was on.