Improve "For security, Claude Code may only change directories to child directories of the original working directory" message
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Aug 6, 2025 by vemv Closed Jan 5, 2026
Quick and hopefully self-explanatory one:
when showing the error message
For security, Claude Code may only change directories to child directories of the original working directory (...) for this session.
Claude doesn't tell you how to fix the problem.
It would be helpful to indicate that you can use the /add-dir command, and/or link to https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/iam#working-directories
Else we are left scratching our heads.
Cheers - V
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