Function isMemoryDirectory

source code/utils/memoryFileDetection.ts:154–209

(dirPath: string)

// Used by Grep/Glob which take a directory `path` rather than a specific file.
// Checks both configDir and memoryBaseDir to handle custom memory dir paths.
export function isMemoryDirectory(dirPath: string): boolean {
  // SECURITY: Normalize to prevent path traversal bypasses via .. segments.
  // On Windows this produces backslashes; toComparable flips them back for
  // string matching. MinGW /c/... paths are converted to native before
  // reaching here (extraction-time in isShellCommandTargetingMemory), so
  // normalize() never sees them.
  const normalizedPath = normalize(dirPath)
  const normalizedCmp = toComparable(normalizedPath)
  // Agent memory directories can be under cwd (project scope), configDir, or memoryBaseDir
  if (
    isAutoMemoryEnabled() &&
    (normalizedCmp.includes('/agent-memory/') ||
      normalizedCmp.includes('/agent-memory-local/'))
  ) {
    return true
  }
  // Team memory directories live under <autoMemPath>/team/
  if (
    feature('TEAMMEM') &&
    teamMemPaths!.isTeamMemoryEnabled() &&
    teamMemPaths!.isTeamMemPath(normalizedPath)
  ) {
    return true
  }
  // Check the auto-memory path override (CLAUDE_COWORK_MEMORY_PATH_OVERRIDE)
  if (isAutoMemoryEnabled()) {
    const autoMemPath = getAutoMemPath()
    const autoMemDirCmp = toComparable(autoMemPath.replace(/[/\\]+$/, ''))
    const autoMemPathCmp = toComparable(autoMemPath)
    if (
      normalizedCmp === autoMemDirCmp ||
      normalizedCmp.startsWith(autoMemPathCmp)
    ) {
      return true
    }
  }

  const configDirCmp = toComparable(getClaudeConfigHomeDir())
  const memoryBaseCmp = toComparable(getMemoryBaseDir())
  const underConfig = normalizedCmp.startsWith(configDirCmp)
  const underMemoryBase = normalizedCmp.startsWith(memoryBaseCmp)

  if (!underConfig && !underMemoryBase) {
    return false
  }
  if (normalizedCmp.includes('/session-memory/')) {
    return true
  }
  if (underConfig && normalizedCmp.includes('/projects/')) {
    return true
  }
  if (isAutoMemoryEnabled() && normalizedCmp.includes('/memory/')) {
    return true
  }
  return false
}

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