CodeWhale was renamed from DeepSeek-TUI. To avoid breaking existing installs, the runtime reads
state from the new ~/.codewhale/ location but falls back to the legacy ~/.deepseek/ location,
and always writes to ~/.codewhale/. This doc audits each legacy reference and records a
keep / deprecate / remove decision so the migration is auditable.
State-dir resolution is consolidated in crates/config/src/lib.rs:
| Symbol | Line | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
CODEWHALE_APP_DIR = ".codewhale" |
3428 | canonical app dir |
LEGACY_APP_DIR = ".deepseek" |
3431 | legacy app dir (fallback only) |
codewhale_home() |
3437 | ~/.codewhale |
legacy_deepseek_home() |
3451 | ~/.deepseek (legacy) |
resolve_state_dir(subdir) |
3469 | read path: ~/.codewhale/<subdir>, falling back to ~/.deepseek/<subdir> when only the legacy dir exists |
ensure_state_dir(subdir) |
3484 | write path: always creates under ~/.codewhale/<subdir> |
Migration contract: read-with-fallback, write-to-new. This preserves the v0.8.44 migration for
users who still have ~/.deepseek/ while steering all new writes to ~/.codewhale/.
Decision for all legacy references below: keep-as-fallback. Removing the .deepseek fallback
would strand users who upgraded in place and never re-ran onboarding. Revisit only after a release
that actively migrates ~/.deepseek/ → ~/.codewhale/ on first run and a deprecation window.
| Reference | Routed through resolve_state_dir? |
Decision |
|---|---|---|
config::resolve_state_dir / ensure_state_dir |
n/a (the resolver itself) | keep — canonical |
crates/tui/src/skills/mod.rs (~/.deepseek/skills) |
no — hardcoded | keep-as-fallback; route through resolver in a follow-up refactor |
crates/tui/src/prompts.rs (LEGACY_HANDOFF_RELATIVE_PATH = ".deepseek/handoff.md") |
no — explicit legacy const | keep — explicit legacy handoff fallback |
crates/tui/src/workspace_trust.rs |
no — hardcoded | keep-as-fallback; follow-up |
crates/tui/src/session_manager.rs |
no — hardcoded | keep-as-fallback; follow-up |
crates/tui/src/skill_state.rs |
no — hardcoded | keep-as-fallback; follow-up |
crates/tui/src/tools/skill.rs |
no — hardcoded | keep-as-fallback; follow-up |
crates/tui/src/snapshot/mod.rs |
no — hardcoded | keep-as-fallback; follow-up |
crates/tui/src/workspace_discovery.rs |
no — hardcoded | keep-as-fallback; follow-up |
The optional consolidation the issue mentions — routing the hardcoded sites above through
resolve_state_dir/ensure_state_dir instead of joining .deepseek/.codewhale by hand — is a
small refactor that should land as its own PR with tests asserting read-fallback + write-to-new for
each migrated site. It is intentionally kept out of this audit so the documentation can land safely
on its own.