[BUG] Roo is having trouble - using <args> when it’s not supposed to #8848
Description
Problem (one or two sentences)
First of all, thank you for the amazing work you guys put into the extension!
A small suggestion for improvement that can make a BIG impact on minimizing the “Roo is having trouble, required parameter path”.
Tested extensively on the past few weeks with Qwen3-Coder, and, as most people, received the dreaded Roo is having trouble, required parameter path not provided.
After extensive testing, can confirm that the issue mostly resides on the read_file tool, where there the XML tag is part of the syntax, whereas on other tools (write_to_file, apply_diff (simple) is not supported). Could confirm when using the simple_read_file syntax instead, the issue is mitigated.
I propose a really simple fix for it. Just as apply_diff has a toggle for editing one file at a time, that read_file should also support a toggle to turn on and off reading one file at a time (the logic is already there on the code, for example, with grok-code-fast)
This simple toggle should satisfy all those 1738439 issues that “parameter path was not provided” with a already baked in solution, effortless, that just has to be discoverable as a simple toggle.
Let me know what you guys think
Thank you very much for all the hard work!
Context (who is affected and when)
When calling write_to_file with many models
Reproduction steps
Call write to file with Qwen3-Coder
Expected result
Call suceeded
Actual result
Tool call failed because the model was confused with confusing multi file read and used when not supposed to
Variations tried (optional)
Can confirm using a less confusing read_file prompt solves the issue. Should be configurable
App Version
latest
API Provider (optional)
None
Model Used (optional)
No response
Roo Code Task Links (optional)
No response