Gemini-CLI Code Assist in VSCode Reaches Chat Limit Asking A Single Question???

[AndrewR73]

Very new to the AI coding helpers game, but I decided to give Google's Code Assist a try after seeing the news about Gemini-CLI allowing 1000 questions a day at the free tier. Figured how can I not give it a go, right?

I followed the instructions to get the extension loaded into my VS Code. After installation, followed the prompts to sign in, and the chat dialog appeared ready to go. I opened a very small Angular project (in the /src folder there's about 30 files total) and asked Gemini what files could it see and/or access within the src folder. It started to answer with a list of the files, then the answer was abruptly cut off, was removed, and replaced with:
Some files were excluded from the context used to generate the last response. Your maximum token limit may have been reached, or some files were deemed irrelevant to your prompt.

I tried a second time, same response. I logged out of the Gemini, closed VS Code, restarted VS Code, and re-logged in again. I tried the same question once more, with the same result.

I started a new chat, and asked it why I was getting this response after asking that question. And once again it starts giving an answer, but the response is removed mid way through, with the above response given in its place.

Has anyone else run into this? Is there something more I am supposed to do (though the online documentation does not allude to anything) to get Code Assist to work? Struggling and very frustrated to say the least.