[BUG] Auto-mode task dashboard shows identical task list across different projects (not scoped to cwd)

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What's Wrong?

Environment:

• Claude Code CLI version: v2.1.233
• OS: macOS
• Terminal: VS Code integrated terminal
• Auto-update: enabled
• Usage pattern: ~20 separate projects, each opened in its own VS Code window with claude launched in that window's integrated terminal

Describe the bug:
The auto-mode task dashboard in the terminal (the "Working" / "Completed" / "Needs input" sections) displays the exact same task list regardless of which project directory the current claude session is actually running in.

I confirmed this with side-by-side comparisons across two different projects (~/Documents/xyz-pos and ~/Documents/nestfolio):

• The header correctly shows the right project path in each window (e.g. Sonnet 5 · ~/Documents/xyz-pos vs Sonnet 5 · ~/Documents/nestfolio).
• But the task list underneath — task titles, completion counts (e.g. "155 completed" vs "156 completed"), and even an in-progress entry like "Working: refine issue 276" — was identical in both, even though those tasks only make sense for one specific project.

This rules out a simple mislabeling issue — the header is scoped correctly, but the task list content is not.

What I've already ruled out (not a session storage bug):

• ~/.claude/projects/<project>/*.jsonl files are correctly separated by project on disk (verified via ls ~/.claude/projects/).
• The cwd field inside individual session .jsonl files correctly matches their respective project (verified via grep -o '"cwd":"[^"]*"' <file>.jsonl).

So the underlying session data is stored and scoped correctly — the bug appears isolated to the auto-mode dashboard's rendering/query layer, which seems to pull from a global/shared source instead of filtering by the current project's working directory.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Project A in one VS Code window, launch claude in the integrated terminal, and start an auto-mode task.
2. Open Project B in a separate VS Code window, launch claude there too.
3. Observe that Project B's task dashboard also shows Project A's tasks (identical titles/counts), instead of showing only Project B's tasks.

Expected behavior:
The task list should be scoped to the current project's cwd, consistent with the correctly-scoped header and the correctly-scoped on-disk session storage.

Actual behavior:
The task list is global/shared — it shows the same tasks regardless of which project's claude session is displaying the dashboard.

Impact:
With ~25 active projects open in parallel, this makes the auto-mode dashboard effectively unusable for tracking per-project progress, since every window shows the same (wrong) task list.

Additional context:
I verified this via screenshots comparing the two projects' dashboards side by side, showing correct headers but identical task lists. Not attaching screenshots here since the task titles reference project-specific/private work, but can describe them further if needed.

What Should Happen?

The task list should be scoped to the current project's cwd, consistent with the correctly-scoped header and the correctly-scoped on-disk session storage (~/.claude/projects/<project>/*.jsonl). Each VS Code window's dashboard should only show tasks belonging to that window's project.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Project A in one VS Code window, launch claude in the integrated terminal, and start an auto-mode task (or have any completed/in-progress tasks in that project's history).
2. Open Project B (a different, unrelated project) in a separate VS Code window, and launch claude in its integrated terminal.
3. Trigger the auto-mode task dashboard in Project B's terminal.
4. Observe that the dashboard header correctly shows Project B's path (e.g. Sonnet 5 · ~/Documents/project-b), but the task list below it (task titles, "X completed" counts, and any "Working: ..." entry) matches Project A's tasks instead of Project B's — or is otherwise not scoped to Project B.

Verification that this is a rendering/query bug, not a storage bug:

• Run ls ~/.claude/projects/ — session files are correctly separated per project on disk.
• Run grep -o '"cwd":"[^"]*"' ~/.claude/projects/<project>/<session>.jsonl — the cwd field inside each session file correctly matches its own project directory.

This confirms the stored session data is correctly scoped per project; the bug is specifically in what the auto-mode dashboard displays, which appears to pull from a global/shared source instead of filtering by the current session's cwd.

Reproduced with:

• Claude Code CLI v2.1.233
• macOS, VS Code integrated terminal
• Auto-update enabled
• ~20 active projects, each in its own VS Code window

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

v2.1.233

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

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