ReadManyFiles triggered erroneously on pasted input, flooding context window #13487
Description
What happened?
pasting input from another thread (eg, "review what this other agent is working on") often gets picked up as paths to consume, triggering a ReadManyFiles on the entire observable universe, crashing my message.
I'm working with bazel and npm stuff, so some of these paths are prefixed with @, but that's always the case - IIRC it happened even with normal paths - not sure exactly what triggers it.
Overall, it attempts to attach tens of thousands of files and errors out, without clear information on the actual state of my typed message
What did you expect to happen?
Ideally, all of the following:
- failure returns me to the message editing screen so I can at least delete the pasted parts with paths
- ability to return to a previous message
- detect pasted text and skip attempts to parse and pipe to ReadManyFiles
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