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The `claude-wt` CLI was failing with an "unknown option '--add-dir'"
error on Linux systems. The root cause was that the fallback path for
the Claude executable was hardcoded to a macOS-specific path
(`/Users/jlowin/.claude/local/claude`).
When `shutil.which("claude")` couldn't find the executable (because it's
an alias, not in PATH), the code would fall back to this macOS path,
which doesn't exist on Linux systems. This caused the subprocess to fail
when trying to execute a non-existent file.
Fixed by replacing the hardcoded path with a dynamic path using
`Path.home()` to construct the user-agnostic path
`~/.claude/local/claude`. This ensures the CLI works correctly across
different operating systems and users.
Handle both branch name formats from `git worktree list --porcelain`: - Older format: "branch claude-wt-foo" - Newer format: "branch refs/heads/claude-wt-foo" This ensures all claude-wt worktrees are properly detected regardless of the git version being used. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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claude-wtCLI was failing with an "unknown option '--add-dir'" error on Linux systems. The root cause was that the fallback path for the Claude executable was hardcoded to a macOS-specific path (/Users/jlowin/.claude/local/claude).When
shutil.which("claude")couldn't find the executable (because it's an alias, not in PATH), the code would fall back to this macOS/User/*path (which doesn't exist on Linux systems) forjlowin(who is one of a kind). This caused the subprocess to fail when trying to execute a non-existent file.Fixed by replacing the hardcoded path with a dynamic path using
Path.home()to construct the user-agnostic path~/.claude/local/claude. This ensures the CLI works correctly across different operating systems and users (expect windows, probably, which I did not test and I'm not even sure is supported by claude).