diff --git a/barretenberg/cpp/.rebuild_patterns b/barretenberg/cpp/.rebuild_patterns
index 0c13870647a..b93cb68742e 100644
--- a/barretenberg/cpp/.rebuild_patterns
+++ b/barretenberg/cpp/.rebuild_patterns
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 ^barretenberg/.*\\.(cpp|cc|cxx|c\\+\\+|h|hpp|hxx|h\\+\\+|c|h|inl|inc|ipp|tpp|cmake)$
 ^barretenberg/.*CMakeLists\\.txt$
-^barretenberg/.*Dockerfile.*$
\ No newline at end of file
+^barretenberg/.*Dockerfile.*$
+^barretenberg/scripts/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/barretenberg/cpp/scripts/run_tests b/barretenberg/cpp/scripts/run_tests
index 8c4ed35047e..28d9f8cc4f8 100755
--- a/barretenberg/cpp/scripts/run_tests
+++ b/barretenberg/cpp/scripts/run_tests
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ IMAGE_URI=$(calculate_image_uri $REPOSITORY)
 retry docker pull $IMAGE_URI
 
 # If there is a file in the scripts directory named $TESTS, those are the tests to run.
-if [ -f "$(query_manifest projectDir $REPOSITORY)/scripts/$TESTS" ]; then
+cd $(query_manifest projectDir $REPOSITORY)/scripts
+if [ -f "$TESTS" ]; then
   TESTS=$(cat $TESTS | tr '\n' ' ')
 fi