I feel like this was asked before, but I can't seem to find the thread: is there a way to

./pants run

something without moving to a sandboxed area?

So it already runs in your build root specifically so that you can do things like write files. but under the

.pants,d

folder. There are some issues though: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/12129

Yeah, the extra pants.d movement causes some issues. Thanks, though.