cadence shell uses temp directories instead of CWD
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 9, 2026 by zackham Closed Jan 9, 2026
Bug: cadence shell uses temp directories instead of CWD
Reported by: Patrick Marchwiak
Issue
- Running
cadence shell(orcadence) uses temporary directories rather than the directory it was started in - Code written during a session isn't persisted to disk
- Can't resume sessions — no memory of previous work
Expected behavior
- Should behave like
claude— write to the current directory and support session resumption
Proposed resolution
- Fix
cadence shellto use the current working directory instead of a temp dir - Ensure session state persists for resumption
Workaround for now
- Use
cadence autofor local dev work — it correctly writes files and handles sessions - Only use
cadence/cadence shellfor quick questions, not repo work
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