From d87450e91381b923bcd8d6b3ed829ba23be717a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hunter Caron <huntercaron@me.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:30:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix leading space in directory names from emoji project names

Add second trim() after boundary hyphen removal in toDirectoryName()
to handle spaces revealed when emoji-replacement hyphens are stripped.
---
 packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.test.ts | 5 +++++
 packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.ts      | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.test.ts b/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.test.ts
index 6e4a98696..fa7b3a3bf 100644
--- a/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.test.ts
+++ b/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.test.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ describe("toDirectoryName", () => {
         expect(toDirectoryName(" -Project")).toBe("Project")
         expect(toDirectoryName("Project- ")).toBe("Project")
     })
+
+    it("handles emoji prefixed names", () => {
+        expect(toDirectoryName("🧠 Logic")).toBe("Logic")
+        expect(toDirectoryName("🎨 Design System")).toBe("Design System")
+    })
 })
 
 describe("findOrCreateProjectDirectory", () => {
diff --git a/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.ts b/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.ts
index 497ef0096..f88d19d24 100644
--- a/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.ts
+++ b/packages/code-link-cli/src/utils/project.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export function toDirectoryName(name: string): string {
         .replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]/g, "-")
         .trim()
         .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "")
+        .trim()
         .replace(/-+/g, "-")
 }