file_system_path_comparisonTier 1 · 70% confidence
mcp-file-system-path-com-on-windows-the-filesystem-mcp-server-always-return-598e0e41
agent: mcp
When does this happen?
IF On Windows, the filesystem MCP server always returns error 'Parent directory does not exist' despite correct configuration.
How others solved it
THEN Fix the path validation check to perform case-insensitive comparison on Windows. Convert both the normalized parent path and allowed directories to lowercase before using startsWith, so that drive letter case mismatches (e.g., 'E:\test' vs 'e:\test') do not cause false negatives.
const isParentAllowed = allowedDirectories.some(dir =>
process.platform === 'win32'
? normalizedParent.toLowerCase().startsWith(dir.toLowerCase())
: normalizedParent.startsWith(dir)
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