fix(context): stop crashing when the working directory was deleted (CLI-1XG)

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Sentry issue: CLI-1XG

Fixes CLI-1XG

Root cause

buildContext() in src/context.ts called process.cwd() without a guard, so once the CLI's starting directory has been removed, Node throws ENOENT: process.cwd failed ... uv_cwd before any command runs.

Reproduction

mkdir /tmp/gone && cd /tmp/gone && rmdir /tmp/gone
sentry --version   # Error: ENOENT: process.cwd failed ... uv_cwd (exit 1)
sentry auth status # same crash

This mostly affects agents running inside a git worktree that got cleaned up underneath them. Every command crashes, even ones that never touch the filesystem, and each crash is reported as an unexpected error.

Fix

resolveCwd() falls back to the shell's logical PWD when process.cwd() throws. PWD still names the deleted directory, so:

• lookups under the missing path find nothing (DSN and project-root checks already treat ENOENT as expected);
• commands with explicit targets, and ones that don't need local files, work normally;
• auto-detection fails with the usual ContextError instead of crashing.

If PWD is missing or not absolute, the original error is rethrown, so that case behaves exactly as before. The fallback never substitutes a different existing directory (home, /), because commands like init and build download write into cwd.

Checked against the npm bundle, run from a deleted directory:

Command	Before	After
sentry --version	ENOENT crash, exit 1	0.46.0-dev.0, exit 0
sentry auth status	ENOENT crash, exit 1	"Not authenticated", exit 10
sentry issue list (with token)	ENOENT crash, exit 1	"Could not auto-detect organization and project", exit 22

Tests

• New test/lib/context.test.ts covers the PWD fallback and the rethrow when PWD is empty or relative. The fallback test fails without the fix.
• vitest run test/lib test/commands test/types test/script: 9986 passed, 1 failed. The failure is delta-upgrade.mocked.test.ts, which also fails on origin/main in this environment (zstd/Node version) and is unrelated.
• biome check and tsc --noEmit pass.

  

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