Extension pollutes recently opened files

[gsaslis]

User input:

After a time all the files that I open during review are left in the recently opened files under some application path /var/folders/...
So I'm thinking would it be possible for a vscode extension to clean up after itself those files?

It's possible to clean up manually, just thinking it would be nice if the extension could do it by itself

[sebastinez]

Here a picture for reference

[gsaslis]

Relevant discussion on zulip: https://radicle.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/380896-ide-plugins/topic/extension.20pollutes.20recently.20opened.20files/near/398686609

Workaround exists!

Ok was able to assign a hotkey to remove all recently opened files which makes it easier.
And it seems vscode is working on being able to exclude paths from recently opened files
microsoft/vscode#157395