Most arguments are places. A command needs to know where.
Path
The written address of a file or folder. An absolute path starts from the top, as in /home/you/notes.txt, and means the same everywhere. A relative path, as in src/cart.js, starts from where you are. .. means the folder above and ~ means your home folder.
A relative path is right from one place only, and agents get lost in big projects. No such file or directory often means a correct path from the wrong folder. And an absolute path that works on your machine, an agent's favourite shortcut, works nowhere else.
“That path only works on my machine. Replace /Users/me/shop/data with a path relative to the project root, then run it from a different folder to prove it still works.”