Move task to end of initial message to prevent it from being drowned out by environment details.

Author: nissa-seru

src/core/Cline.ts

@@ -441,24 +441,25 @@ export class Cline {
 	// Task lifecycle
 
 	private async startTask(task?: string, images?: string[]): Promise<void> {
-		// conversationHistory (for API) and clineMessages (for webview) need to be in sync
-		// if the extension process were killed, then on restart the clineMessages might not be empty, so we need to set it to [] when we create a new Cline client (otherwise webview would show stale messages from previous session)
-		this.clineMessages = []
-		this.apiConversationHistory = []
-		await this.providerRef.deref()?.postStateToWebview()
-
-		await this.say("text", task, images)
-		this.isInitialized = true
+    // conversationHistory (for API) and clineMessages (for webview) need to be in sync
+    // if the extension process were killed, then on restart the clineMessages might not be empty, so we need to set it to [] when we create a new Cline client (otherwise webview would show stale messages from previous session)
+    this.clineMessages = [];
+    this.apiConversationHistory = [];
+    await this.providerRef.deref()?.postStateToWebview();
+
+    await this.say("text", task, images);
+    this.isInitialized = true;
+
+    let imageBlocks: Anthropic.ImageBlockParam[] = formatResponse.imageBlocks(images);
+    await this.initiateTaskLoop([
+        ...imageBlocks,
+        {
+            type: "text",
+            text: `<environment_details>Loading...</environment_details>\n\n<task>\n${task}\n</task>`,
+        },
+    ]);
+}
 
-		let imageBlocks: Anthropic.ImageBlockParam[] = formatResponse.imageBlocks(images)
-		await this.initiateTaskLoop([
-			{
-				type: "text",
-				text: `<task>\n${task}\n</task>`,
-			},
-			...imageBlocks,
-		])
-	}
 
 	private async resumeTaskFromHistory() {
 		const modifiedClineMessages = await this.getSavedClineMessages()