[BUG] Claude worktree directory location is incredably frustrating

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

For some reason Claude is determined to collect worktrees in seemingly random folders. It used to put them inside the ./.claude folder which led some devs to attempt adding .claude/ to .gitignore and inevitably clobbered with other folders Claude puts in this folder.

Then it decided to put them in ./.claude/worktree/ or ./.claude/worktrees/ or ./.claude/.wt/ or ./.wt/ or ../.wt or ../worktree or ../worktrees. It never decides to put them in .. (the location I want to put them) unless I explicitly say to.

Now I have a full disk of worktrees to manually clean up because Claude doesn't seem to do so.

My directory structure right now:

~/Projects
  - Repo1
    - .claude
      - worktree
        - feature-slug
        - feature2
      - worktrees
        - feature3
      - .wt
        - feature4
    - .wt
      - feature5
  - .wt
    - Repo1
        - worktree
          - feature6
          - feature7
        - worktrees
          - feature8
        - .wt
          - feature9
      - .wt
        - feature10
      - feature11
    - feature12
  - Repo1-feature13

(crosssed with 23 other repos which also have a bunch of stale worktrees)

What Should Happen?

• I want full control over the directory that Claude places worktrees.
• I want all my worktrees to exist as sibling directories to the repository.
• I want to be able to trust Claude to never create worktrees in a location where I am not looking for them.

~/Projects
  - Repo1
  - Repo1-feature-slug
  - Repo1-feature2
  - Repo1-feature3
  - Repo1-feature4
  - Repo1-feature5
  - Repo1-feature6
  - Repo1-feature7
  - Repo1-feature8
  - Repo1-feature9
  - Repo1-feature10
  - Repo1-feature11
  - Repo1-feature12
  - Repo1-feature13

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

I don't have specific steps to reproduce, basically any prompt to change something has claude making a change via a worktree. I just happened to open the folder and notice after not cleaning them up for a few weeks.

Claude Model

Not sure / Multiple models

Is this a regression?

No, this never worked

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.186

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

Windows Terminal

Additional Information

_No response_