Copilot cannot find file it just created in the existing session

[grodriguez-lodgify]

Describe the bug

• I ask Copilot CLI to develop a feature
• Copilot creates new files and finishes the implementation
• Trying to mention those new files will not work, as they don't appear in the reference list with @

My current workaround is exiting copilot and start again.

Affected version

0.0.353 Commit: f8fd3e3

Steps to reproduce the behavior

• I ask Copilot CLI to develop a feature
• Copilot creates new files and finishes the implementation
• Trying to mention those new files will not work, as they don't appear in the reference list with @

Expected behavior

I would expect to have the new files available via @ in case I continue with other features in the same session that rely on those files.

Additional context

No response

[thawkins]

I have seen this behaviour recently, the tool says it can't find a change it just wrote to a file, this is not a permissions problem.

[grodriguez-lodgify]

I have seen this behaviour recently, the tool says it can't find a change it just wrote to a file, this is not a permissions problem.

Rather than that, what I mean is that if a file was just created in the current session, it won't appear in the @ list to add it as context. I guess it's in the context and all, as in the conversation context, but not in the file list.

[thawkins]

it's changes that it makes to files, that it seems to loose moments later.

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