The software world
File path
path
The address of a file, written as the chain of folders you'd walk through to reach it, separated by slashes:
Documents/work/2025/report.pdf. Read it left to right — each step goes one folder deeper, and the last piece is the file itself. Why it matters
Part of Files, folders and paths → It's how you point at exactly one file out of hundreds of thousands with no ambiguity. Telling Claude "look at src/server/index.js" is precise in a way that "the server file" isn't, and precision is most of what makes a request work the first time.