You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
WindowsArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.234,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
When the shell reports back a working directory that looks like a Windows NT device-namespace path, Claude Code now logs a warning and keeps the previous directory instead of adopting it. This joins the existing guards for dot segments, network paths and foreign automounts, and runs on every read-back.
Evidence
shell cwd read-back is an NT-namespace device path; ignoring
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.