microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-environments

Poetry package listing fails for nested/non-root pyproject.toml projects (`poetry show` runs with wrong cwd)

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Description

### Environment
- vscode-python-envs version: 1.36.0
- OS: Linux (devcontainer, linux-arm64)
- Poetry: 2.4.3

### Description
When a Poetry project is registered via `python-envs.pythonProjects` but is **not** at the workspace root (e.g. a monorepo with `scripts/pyproject.toml`), the "Manage Packages" package listing fails with:

```
poetry: Poetry could not find a pyproject.toml file in or its parents
```

### Root cause (found in source)
`PoetryPackageManager.getDirectPackageNames()` (`src/managers/poetry/poetryPackageManager.ts`) builds `PoetryShowTopLevelCommand` without ever passing a `cwd`:

```ts
const showTopLevelCmd = new PoetryShowTopLevelCommand({
pythonExecutable: poetry,
log: this.log,
});
```

This means `poetry show --no-ansi --top-level` always inherits the extension host process's own cwd (in a remote/devcontainer setup this is the vscode-server install directory), not the project directory. This is confirmed intentional by the existing unit test `poetryPackageManager.unit.test.ts`: *"direct package listing inherits the process working directory"* asserts `runPoetryStub.firstCall.args[1] === undefined`.

`fetchPackagesFromTool()` (used for plain `poetry show --no-ansi`) does compute a cwd via `getPoetryCwd()`, but that logic only reliably resolves when `api.getPythonProjects()` returns exactly one project. Since VS Code always implicitly adds the workspace root as a project (`PythonProjectManagerImpl.getInitialProjects()`), any repo with a registered non-root Poetry project (e.g. `scripts/`) ends up with 2+ projects, forcing the "match by environment identity" branch — which can return an empty `matchingDirectories` set (and thus `undefined` cwd) depending on how the workspace-root's own resolved environment compares.

### Repro
1. Monorepo with `pyproject.toml` only in a subfolder, e.g. `scripts/pyproject.toml`.
2. Add to `.vscode/settings.json`:
```json
"python-envs.pythonProjects": [
{ "path": "scripts", "envManager": "ms-python.python:poetry", "packageManager": "ms-python.python:poetry" }
]
```
3. Open "Manage Packages" for the `scripts` project's Poetry environment.

### Expected
`poetry show` commands run with cwd set to the registered project directory (`scripts/`).

### Actual
Both `poetry show --no-ansi --top-level` and `poetry show --no-ansi` fail with "could not find a pyproject.toml", repeating every time `packageWatchers` triggers an auto-refresh.

### Suggested fix
- Pass `cwd` (resolved from the project associated with `environment`, e.g. via `api.getPythonProject(environment.environmentPath)` or similar) into `PoetryShowTopLevelCommand` in `getDirectPackageNames()`.
- In `getPoetryCwd()`, prefer resolving cwd from the actual project that owns the environment (e.g. via reverse lookup by environment path) rather than only matching by `envId.id` equality across all projects.

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Research direction

Start in src/managers/poetry/poetryPackageManager.ts, especially getDirectPackageNames() and getPoetryCwd(), then read poetryPackageManager.unit.test.ts and its existing process-working-directory assertion. Trace how the registered project and environment are resolved for nested projects. Done means both poetry show commands use the registered project directory and the unit tests cover that cwd behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, typescript
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
74/100

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