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Claude Code v2.1.238 ·

Differently-spelled paths are no longer mistaken for existing directories

Adding a working directory now recognises the same folder written a different way on Windows or macOS.

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1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Working DirectoriesArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.238,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What

Adding a working directory now compares paths accounting for Windows UNC spellings and private aliases such as macOS /private, so a directory written a different way is no longer wrongly treated as already inside a root you added.

Evidence

uncShapeParity: !0

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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