I get this all the time when I’m asking about my files, even when I search with the codebase. “I apologize for any confusion, but as an AI, I don’t have direct access to your file system or codebase. I can only provide assistance based on the information, code snippets, and conversation history you’ve provided.”
I think that’s more of a pre-prompt issue. It gets the most relevant snippets from your codebase but no one tells it that it can actually “access the file system or codebase”.
what is the pre-prompt exactly?
Also, I’m not sure if this always works but I think I figured it out? I turned on “reasoning step” when doing run with codebase, made it gpt-3.5-cot, and upped the results to 400
You can ask the AI for the pre-prompt if you’d like.
And yea, the “Reasoning Step” is a more in-depth codebase search so it’s less likely to occur there.
Looks like the “reasoning step” function has been removed? its happening again now more often
Should still be there.
Have you found a fix? This is really annoying, especially with how frequently I use files in other folder. @Jakob
Are the any prompts that I could include beforehand? The best way I have found currently is asking it for what folder a file is in, then asking after.