Cannot change a session's working folder from the UI
Summary
There's no way to change the working folder of an existing session in the Claude Code desktop app. The folder chip in the header isn't clickable, and there's no menu entry for it. The only ways to work in a different folder are to start a new conversation — or, as I found by accident, to delete the current folder in Finder.
Steps to reproduce
- Open a session in the desktop app with folder A.
- Try to point the session at folder B. There's no affordance — the header chip isn't interactive.
- Delete folder A in Finder.
- The header chip updates to a different folder on its own.
Why this matters
Step 4 suggests the app can already re-resolve a session's folder and refresh the chip — it just isn't exposed. Deleting a folder shouldn't be the only way to trigger that.
This also makes the displayed state hard to trust. While debugging this, pwd reported a different path than the chip showed, and it took a while to notice.
Codex supports folder switching, so the gap stands out when moving between the two tools.
Request
Make the header folder chip clickable, opening a folder picker that switches the session's working folder.
Environment
- Claude Code desktop app, macOS 15.5 (Darwin 25.5.0)
- Model: Opus 4.8