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Subdirectory hint discovery and path handling fixes

Cluster 11032 · agent. Data as of

1 open item. Fix merged in #109112 on 12 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A series of features and bug fixes related to subdirectory hint tracking, covering progressive discovery, relative and backslash path detection, bare 'cd' target resolution, and error handling edge cases.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#14561fix(agent): load all subdirectory hint files

Fixes on record

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  • #109112 fix(agent): `cd backend && ls` loads backend/AGENTS.md subdirectory hints (#11032, salvage #11037)

    merged to main

    files: agent/subdirectory_hints.py, tests/agent/test_subdirectory_hints.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · duplicate 1 · merged via another change 1

  • #11037 fix(agent): resolve bare `cd backend` targets in SubdirectoryHintTracker · merged via another change → 088d292, #109112
  • #11046 fix #11032: SubdirectoryHintTracker extract relative dir from cd/pushd · duplicate → #11037
  • #29433 fix(subdirectory_hints): catch RuntimeError from Path.expanduser() · done elsewhere → c126a99
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#11032[Bug]: SubdirectoryHintTracker misses `cd backend && ...` when the path is a simple relative directory name
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.33: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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Merged PRs
#109112
Closed issues
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3 PRs closed without merging
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12 Sep 2026

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