azd ai agent init - Create a directory when init'ing from a template

[banrahan]

Problem

When a user does the azd ai agent init command, it creates a yaml in the dir. If this is done in something like the users home folder, it is pretty difficult to recover from.

Here is a video clip of this happening: https://app.heymarvin.com/note/9c9dcead-bf57-45db-9242-32d2e781bda0/

Proposed Solution

Mimic git clone behavior and create a folder. This requires cd into the directory, but it is easier to recover from.

Here is a video of someone using it in this way: https://app.heymarvin.com/note/a3d9dcb5-0b75-4eb8-a990-e10717797b4f/

[vhvb1989]

Hi! Wanted to share that the behavior requested here — creating a new folder during azd ai agent init — already works using the -C flag:

azd ai agent init -C myNewFolder

azd will automatically prompt you to create the folder if it does not exist.

However, there is currently a bug on Linux where relative paths cause the path to be doubled (e.g., myFolder/myFolder), resulting in an error. Workaround: use the full absolute path instead:

azd ai agent init -C /full/path/to/myNewFolder

This may work with relative paths on Windows (untested), but on Linux you will need the full path for now.

I have filed #8229 to track the relative path bug fix — the root cause is that the relative -C value is resolved twice (once by core azd, once by the extension subprocess).

[trangevi]

I think the original comment would actually be to do what the default azd handling is, acting like git clone

[banrahan]

Correct, this is to make the -C /full/path the default for init