pi-mono/packages/coding-agent
robopipi[bot] 88ffcdc734
fix(coding-agent): report a deleted working directory instead of crashing on startup (#11511)
Starting `pi` from a directory that has been deleted crashed with an
uncaught Node `ENOENT ... uv_cwd` stack trace. This also happened for
`--version` and `--help`. The cause is the unguarded `process.cwd()`
call in `main()` (`packages/coding-agent/src/main.ts`).

`main()` now catches `ENOENT` from that call, prints one line telling
the user to change to an existing directory, and exits with code 1.
Other errors are rethrown unchanged. Argument handling is otherwise
unchanged: `--version` still needs a valid cwd, but it now gets the
readable error instead of a crash.

**Testing**
- Added `test/deleted-cwd.test.ts`. It stubs `process.cwd()` to throw
ENOENT and checks that `main()` prints the message and exits with code
1. It also checks that a non-ENOENT error is rethrown. The first test
fails without the change and passes with it.
- `npm run check` passes.
- Manual check with the built CLI. Before, all three commands below
printed the `uv_cwd` stack trace. After, each prints `Error: The current
working directory no longer exists. Change to an existing directory and
try again.` and exits 1:
  ```sh
  d=$(mktemp -d); cd "$d"; rmdir "$d"
  pi -ne --version; pi -ne --help; pi -ne
  ```

Fixes #11509

Requested by @badlogic

Co-authored-by: triagent <triagent@localhost>
2026-10-28 09:51:39 +01:00
..
docs docs(coding-agent): restore the full extensions guide, corrected against current source (#11498) 2026-10-28 00:31:24 +02:00
examples docs(coding-agent): restore the full extensions guide, corrected against current source (#11498) 2026-10-28 00:31:24 +02:00
install-lock fix(coding-agent): update undici to 8.12.3 for security advisories 2026-10-26 13:50:55 +01:00
schemas feat(ai,coding-agent): image input for System One classifiers 2026-10-21 23:53:47 +02:00
scripts docs(ai,coding-agent): generate models.json reference from schemas (#11038) 2026-10-16 21:53:00 +01:00
src fix(coding-agent): report a deleted working directory instead of crashing on startup (#11511) 2026-10-28 09:51:39 +01:00
test fix(coding-agent): report a deleted working directory instead of crashing on startup (#11511) 2026-10-28 09:51:39 +01:00
.gitignore Fix tool call ID normalization for cross-provider switches to Anthropic/GitHub Copilot 2026-01-13 04:07:10 +01:00
CHANGELOG.md fix: harden handling of untrusted URLs, terminal text, and streamed data 2026-10-26 20:46:31 +01:00
package.json fix(coding-agent): update undici to 8.12.3 for security advisories 2026-10-26 13:50:55 +01:00
README.md feat(coding-agent): add Nix flake (#9137) 2026-10-02 18:30:51 +02:00
tsconfig.build.json feat(coding-agent): remove the experimental server stack and the client, protocol, and server packages 2026-10-12 10:41:59 +00:00
tsconfig.examples.json chore: migrate pi packages to earendil works scope 2026-05-07 15:59:42 +02:00
vitest.config.ts fix: use bounded runtime paths for Unix sockets 2026-08-14 17:02:03 +03:00

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