Claude Code cannot create files in nested folders

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Been playing with Claude Code in Xcode 26.3 as a code assistant and discovered it cannot create files in nested folders, only repo root. Letting Claude troubleshoot itself, it appears that str_replace_based_edit_tool strips forward slashes from the path variable. This is what Claude claims to send:

<invoke name="str_replace_based_edit_tool">
  <parameter name="command">create</parameter>
  <parameter name="path">/repo/Test App/EntityTestsAttempt3.swift</parameter>
  <parameter name="file_text">
    // ... file contents ...
  </parameter>
</invoke>

And the file that gets created is:

Test AppEntityTestsAttempt3.swift

Anyone else run into this before or can reproduce it?

Answered by Engineer in 876467022

Based on the log you're showing, I think that you actually may be using the existing built-in Xcode coding assistant agent, not Claude Agent!

If you see a line of text that says "Claude Sonnet 4.5" or "Claude Opus 4.5" in your prompt bar, you are using the old feature — make sure that says "Claude Agent."

If you're having trouble getting this to show up, double check you've downloaded the Claude Agent binary from Anthropic in Xcode Settings > Intelligence > Anthropic (hit the "Get" button if one is showing) and that you have signed in using the "..." next to "Account" on the Claude Agent settings page.

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Engineer OP

Apple

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Based on the log you're showing, I think that you actually may be using the existing built-in Xcode coding assistant agent, not Claude Agent!

If you see a line of text that says "Claude Sonnet 4.5" or "Claude Opus 4.5" in your prompt bar, you are using the old feature — make sure that says "Claude Agent."

If you're having trouble getting this to show up, double check you've downloaded the Claude Agent binary from Anthropic in Xcode Settings > Intelligence > Anthropic (hit the "Get" button if one is showing) and that you have signed in using the "..." next to "Account" on the Claude Agent settings page.

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MrAdun OP

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That is 100% true! I'll continue playing around with it, but so far the agent doesn't seem to have the same limitations or buggy-ness the code assistant does. It definitely uses significantly more tokens faster, though. Thanks!

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