diff --git a/packages/tui/src/prompt/directory-completion.ts b/packages/tui/src/prompt/directory-completion.ts
index 5fe04a37c47..cacbb2d7bf5 100644
--- a/packages/tui/src/prompt/directory-completion.ts
+++ b/packages/tui/src/prompt/directory-completion.ts
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ export function directoryAutocompleteResultValue(
   directory: string,
   search: ReturnType<typeof directoryAutocompleteSearch>,
 ) {
-  return (search.prefix || "./") + directory.replace(/^[\\/]+/, "")
+  return search.prefix + directory.replace(/^[\\/]+/, "")
 }
 
 export function directoryAutocompleteExactValue(value: string, search: ReturnType<typeof directoryAutocompleteSearch>) {
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/prompt/autocomplete.test.ts b/packages/tui/test/prompt/autocomplete.test.ts
index 2f0158711c0..9b9dfc6d7c2 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/prompt/autocomplete.test.ts
+++ b/packages/tui/test/prompt/autocomplete.test.ts
@@ -105,13 +105,6 @@ describe("directoryAutocompleteSearch", () => {
 })
 
 describe("directoryAutocompleteResultValue", () => {
-  test("marks current-directory results as relative", () => {
-    const search = directoryAutocompleteSearch("", "/project", "/home/user")
-    expect(directoryAutocompleteResultValue("src/", search)).toBe("./src/")
-    expect(directoryAutocompleteResultValue("/src/", search)).toBe("./src/")
-    expect(directoryAutocompleteResultValue("/", search)).toBe("./")
-  })
-
   test("preserves explicit roots", () => {
     expect(
       directoryAutocompleteResultValue("projects/", directoryAutocompleteSearch("~/", "/project", "/home/user")),