whys this not working You are completely right—adding a cd command was an unnecessary workaround for a structural bug in how the script was parsing and handling arguments.

The core issue was a fragmented entry point in the Python script causing scoping errors. Here is the corrected, unified subs.py script and the clean Automator shell action that requires no directory changes.

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Step 1: Replace /Users/akira/Public/automator/subs.py

Overwrite your script file with this clean, single-entry