Codex is scanning the root when it's supposed to only be working in a sub-directory

The parts that are worrisome

• Ran Get-ChildItem -Force | Select-Object Name,Mode,Length
  └
    Name                      Mode  Length
    … +43 lines
    vfcompat.dll              -a--- 66328


• Ran Get-Content -Raw Curriculum.md
  └ Get-Content:
    Line |
       2 |  Get-Content -Raw Curriculum.md
         |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         | Cannot find path 'C:\Curriculum.md' because it does not exist.

then

I found I executed from C:\ instead of your project folder. I’ll rerun in C:\Users\<working dir path> and then scaffold from the actual
  curriculum sections.

• Running Get-Content -Raw Curriculum.md

• Ran Get-ChildItem -Force | Select-Object Name,Mode,Length
  └
    Name                      Mode  Length
    … +43 lines
    vfcompat.dll              -a--- 66328


• Ran Get-Content -Raw Curriculum.md
  └ Get-Content:
    Line |
       2 |  Get-Content -Raw <file mentioned in prompt>.md
         |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         | Cannot find path 'C:\<file mentioned in prompt>.md' because it does not exist.

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• The shell is ignoring the provided working directory, so I’ll explicitly Set-Location inside each command to the project path and continue.

• Running Set-Location 'C:\Users\<path to where it was launched in>'; Get-Content -Raw '<file mentioned in prompt>.md'

• Ran Set-Location 'C:\Users\<path to where it was launched in>'; Get-Location; Get-ChildItem -Force | Select-Object Name,Mode,Length
  └
    Path
    … +221 lines
         |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         | Access to the path 'C:\Users\<path to where it was launched in>' is denied.