From 5d4303510cc35571ae99a0a4a7d6ac40ccc03089 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jif-oai <jif@openai.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 14:50:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: windows normalization (#13742)

---
 codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs |  5 +++--
 codex-rs/core/src/path_utils.rs | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs b/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs
index a5e19b05a..2898faecc 100644
--- a/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ use crate::model_provider_info::ModelProviderInfo;
 use crate::model_provider_info::OLLAMA_CHAT_PROVIDER_REMOVED_ERROR;
 use crate::model_provider_info::OLLAMA_OSS_PROVIDER_ID;
 use crate::model_provider_info::built_in_model_providers;
+use crate::path_utils::normalize_for_native_workdir;
 use crate::project_doc::DEFAULT_PROJECT_DOC_FILENAME;
 use crate::project_doc::LOCAL_PROJECT_DOC_FILENAME;
 use crate::protocol::AskForApproval;
@@ -1760,7 +1761,7 @@ impl Config {
         let configured_features = Features::from_config(&cfg, &config_profile, feature_overrides);
         let features = ManagedFeatures::from_configured(configured_features, feature_requirements)?;
         let windows_sandbox_mode = resolve_windows_sandbox_mode(&cfg, &config_profile);
-        let resolved_cwd = {
+        let resolved_cwd = normalize_for_native_workdir({
             use std::env;
 
             match cwd {
@@ -1777,7 +1778,7 @@ impl Config {
                     current
                 }
             }
-        };
+        });
         let additional_writable_roots: Vec<AbsolutePathBuf> = additional_writable_roots
             .into_iter()
             .map(|path| AbsolutePathBuf::resolve_path_against_base(path, &resolved_cwd))
diff --git a/codex-rs/core/src/path_utils.rs b/codex-rs/core/src/path_utils.rs
index 4885679e5..af7d62077 100644
--- a/codex-rs/core/src/path_utils.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/core/src/path_utils.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ pub fn normalize_for_path_comparison(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> std::io::Result<
     Ok(normalize_for_wsl(canonical))
 }
 
+pub fn normalize_for_native_workdir(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> PathBuf {
+    normalize_for_native_workdir_with_flag(path.as_ref().to_path_buf(), cfg!(windows))
+}
+
 pub struct SymlinkWritePaths {
     pub read_path: Option<PathBuf>,
     pub write_path: PathBuf,
@@ -116,6 +120,14 @@ fn normalize_for_wsl(path: PathBuf) -> PathBuf {
     normalize_for_wsl_with_flag(path, env::is_wsl())
 }
 
+fn normalize_for_native_workdir_with_flag(path: PathBuf, is_windows: bool) -> PathBuf {
+    if is_windows {
+        dunce::simplified(&path).to_path_buf()
+    } else {
+        path
+    }
+}
+
 fn normalize_for_wsl_with_flag(path: PathBuf, is_wsl: bool) -> PathBuf {
     if !is_wsl {
         return path;
@@ -240,4 +252,30 @@ mod tests {
             assert_eq!(normalized, path);
         }
     }
+
+    mod native_workdir {
+        use super::super::normalize_for_native_workdir_with_flag;
+        use pretty_assertions::assert_eq;
+        use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+        #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+        #[test]
+        fn windows_verbatim_paths_are_simplified() {
+            let path = PathBuf::from(r"\\?\D:\c\x\worktrees\2508\swift-base");
+            let normalized = normalize_for_native_workdir_with_flag(path, true);
+
+            assert_eq!(
+                normalized,
+                PathBuf::from(r"D:\c\x\worktrees\2508\swift-base")
+            );
+        }
+
+        #[test]
+        fn non_windows_paths_are_unchanged() {
+            let path = PathBuf::from(r"\\?\D:\c\x\worktrees\2508\swift-base");
+            let normalized = normalize_for_native_workdir_with_flag(path.clone(), false);
+
+            assert_eq!(normalized, path);
+        }
+    }
 }