`cwd` in ClaudeCodeOptions does not seem to be honored at all

[abhaybhargav]

Update

This is now ok when I use opus for some reason.

Using this code from the examples and docs. The cwd is completely ignored and random paths are picked. Even with bypassPermissions enabled

async def main():
    messages: list[Message] = []

    async for message in query(
        prompt = prompt,
        options = ClaudeCodeOptions(
            cwd = Path("/path/to/app"),
            system_prompt = "You are a helpful assistant",
            allowed_tools = ['Task', 'Agent', 'Bash', 'Glob', 'Grep', 'LS', 'exit_plan_mode', 'Read', 'Edit', 'MultiEdit', 'Write', 'NotebookRead', 'NotebookEdit', 'WebFetch', 'TodoRead', 'TodoWrite'],
            permission_mode = "bypassPermissions",
            continue_conversation=True,
            max_turns = 10,
        ),
    ):
        messages.append(message)

    print(messages)

anyio.run(main)

[tim-watcha]

Me too. when I set "/path/to/app", it becomes "/private/path/to/app"

[tim-watcha]

Me too. when I set "/path/to/app", it becomes "/private/path/to/app"

I figured out that Mac's symlink works in that way when I use /tmp/... folder. My issue was another one.

[wodexiaobai322]

same,must specify in prompt

Found it works find with gemini-2.5-pro,lol

[elmspace]

Same issue here. Not only it does not respect the cwd option, it tries to perform tasks in other directories, which is dangerous! Thank god it runs into permissions issues!

[marswong]

Gently ping @ltawfik , any update on this? It still writes files to /tmp randomly even if I set a cwd