The just manual describes some ways to do this. https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_65.html https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_65.html The intended way seems

The just manual describes some ways to do this. https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_65.html https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_65.html The intended way seems to be to invoke just with explicit --justfile and --workdir arguments, and wrap that invocation with a shell alias/function.