From 64f8ea9b0b1ae089e8aac32e81fd2145b6058911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brennan Benson <79079362+brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:17:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(agent-status): reject cwd path titles

---
 src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts | 12 ++++++++++++
 src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts      | 14 ++++++++------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts
index 7b91400472b..68735fa996f 100644
--- a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts
@@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ describe('collectAgentTitleEvidence', () => {
     }
   )
 
+  it.each([
+    '~/codex',
+    '/grok',
+    '.\\openclaude',
+    'C:\\codex',
+    'C:/codex',
+    '~/Codex ready',
+    '.\\Cursor ready'
+  ])('does not treat the cwd path %s as identity', (title) => {
+    expect(agentFor(title)).toBeNull()
+  })
+
   it('does not duplicate an anchored token as free text', () => {
     expect(collectAgentTitleEvidence('Codex').freeTextNames).toEqual([])
     expect(collectAgentTitleEvidence('Claude Agent Teams').freeTextNames).toEqual([])
diff --git a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts
index 015ead70c14..c74aa7aaff9 100644
--- a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts
+++ b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts
@@ -147,10 +147,11 @@ function stripBareNameDecoration(text: string): string {
 }
 
 function agentForBareName(text: string): TuiAgent | null {
-  if (!text.trim()) {
+  const trimmed = text.trim()
+  if (!trimmed || /[\\/]/.test(trimmed)) {
     return null
   }
-  const stripped = stripBareNameDecoration(text)
+  const stripped = stripBareNameDecoration(trimmed)
   // Why labels too: an agent may write its own display name as the entire title (`⠐ Claude Code`).
   // That is the same claim as a bare token, just spelled the way the vendor spells it.
   const label = DISPLAY_LABELS.find(([text]) => text === stripped.toLowerCase())
@@ -170,10 +171,11 @@ function agentForOwnerSuffix(text: string): TuiAgent | null {
 }
 
 function agentForSyntheticTitle(text: string): TuiAgent | null {
-  const normalized = text
-    .trim()
-    .replace(/^[^\p{L}\p{N}]+/u, '')
-    .toLowerCase()
+  const trimmed = text.trim()
+  if (/[\\/]/.test(trimmed)) {
+    return null
+  }
+  const normalized = trimmed.replace(/^[^\p{L}\p{N}]+/u, '').toLowerCase()
   for (const agent of SYNTHETIC_AGENT_TITLE_AGENTS) {
     const profile = SYNTHETIC_AGENT_TITLE_PROFILES[agent]
     if (