diff --git a/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/project/filesystem.rs b/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/project/filesystem.rs
index cf759c0e9..03757e283 100644
--- a/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/project/filesystem.rs
+++ b/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/project/filesystem.rs
@@ -421,10 +421,9 @@ pub(crate) fn should_skip_project_derived_path(relative_path: &str) -> bool {
             .split('/')
             .filter(|component| !component.is_empty())
             .any(|component| {
-                let component = component.to_ascii_lowercase();
                 PROJECT_DERIVED_EXCLUDED_COMPONENTS
                     .iter()
-                    .any(|candidate| *candidate == component)
+                    .any(|candidate| component.eq_ignore_ascii_case(candidate))
             })
 }