File Path Resolution Failure in Tools

[cfloersch]

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• I've tried using the "Ask AI" feature on the Continue docs site to see if the docs have an answer
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Relevant environment info

- OS: Fedora Linux
- Continue version:1.0.61
- IDE version: IntelliJ 2025.3.3 (253.31033.145)
- Model: qwen3.5:27b (ollama)
- config:
  
name: Local Config
version: 1.0.0
schema: v1
models:
  - name: Autodetect
    provider: ollama
    model: AUTODETECT
    roles: [chat, edit, apply]
    capabilities: [tool_use]
  - name: Claude 4.6 Sonnet
    provider: anthropic
    model: claude-sonnet-4-6
    apiKey: sk-ant-api03-REDACTED
    roles: [chat]
    capabilities: [tool_use]
  - name: Claude 4.6 Opus
    provider: anthropic
    model: claude-opus-4-6
    apiKey: sk-ant-api03-REDACTED
    roles: [chat]
    capabilities: [tool_use]
tabAutocompleteModel:
  provider: none
embeddingsProvider:
  provider: none
context:
  - provider: open
    params:
      onlyPinned: false
  - provider: file
  - provider: currentFile
  - provider: code
  - provider: search
  
  OR link to agent in Continue hub:

Description

So I asked the agent to create a file in a named directory called hello.txt and write hello world into it. The current project directory was Military/AirDefense. In that directory was a subdirectory called MEADS. I asked it to create it in the directory MEADS.

The hello.txt popped up in my editor with the contents I asked it to write but it was no where to be seen in my project window (in the directory I expected). I attempted to have the IDE find the file and it could not suggesting it was not in the Project at all. Project path was /home/username/Documents/Military

I would have expected it to create the file /home/username/Documents/Military/Army/AirDefense/MEADS/hello.txt

But what it actually created was

/home/username/home/username/Documents/Military/Army/AirDefense/MEADS/hello.txt

I of course suspect there is some sort of directory normalization/resolution issue somewhere int the Tools code. Using AI in another dev tool I was able to locate it in the ideUtils.ts file where most of the resolution/normalization is occurring. I have attached a patch I believe will fix the issue (and a test file as well). You'll want to verify it doesn't have negative consequences on other platforms but I think I added sufficient tests.

Fix_for_file_path_normalization_issue.patch

To reproduce

1. Load a project in linux (intellij). Ask the agent to create a file called hello.txt in one of the project directories by name and write hello world into the file. The agent properly determines the relative path of the file it should create and it calls the tool to create_file where it fails to create the file where you'd expect.

Log output

There is no log output. The agent thinks everything is hunky dory and in a way it is.

[cfloersch]

It might also be useful to note that in my environment the CWD the IDE is running in is /home/username