Running tasks from sidebar doesn't set the {{.PWD}} variable to the open folder's directory.

[WinkelCode]

Example:

version: "3"

tasks:
  default:
    cmds:
      - echo "{{.PWD}}"

Running from terminal:

$ task
task: [default] echo "/Volumes/Projects/Code_Projects/LinuxEnv"
/Volumes/Projects/Code_Projects/LinuxEnv

Running from sidebar:

task: [default] echo "/"
/
task: completed with code 0

The most logical behavior would be to set the PWD to the root of the opened folder.

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• Task version:

$ task --version
Task version: 3.39.2 ()

• Operating System: macOS 15.1

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Update: I observe the same behavior with USER_WORKING_DIR.

Update 2: Never mind, I added USER_WORKING_DIR in the wrong spot, it does work! I wonder why PWD doesn't, then again I don't see it documented?

Update 3: Interesting, I just tried it with {{.SHELL}} and in it works in both cases. So I guess that in my previous test, PWD came from the environment, maybe it needs to be explicitly set when running from the sidebar?

I am inclined to just close this issue as being user error, but I feel like it's just weird enough (confused me a for a bit) that it might be worth it to set the PWD variable in the VSCode extension?