Rank, 14 days: 145 on the Claude Code sheet
2 people reported
All time, since Oct 21.
start_session rejects U+FE0F names
“The call is refused: "cwd contains control or invisible characters; pass the plain name or path."”
Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.
Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.
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start_session refuses folder or preset names containing U+FE0F. The call returns "cwd contains control or invisible characters; pass the plain name or path." for names with an emoji variation selector, including names list_start_targets returns.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- Desktop start_session
- Error text
cwd contains control or invisible characters; pass the plain name or path.- Versions
- 2.1.317
- Platforms
- macOS
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.