Kubeconfig not found at: . Add a new one?

[crowne]

I have installed
ms-kubernetes-tools.vscode-kubernetes-tools
version 1.3.25

whenever I open my project directory in vscode, and then open a yaml file (any yaml not a k8s yaml) I see an error message:

Kubeconfig not found at: . Add a new one?

it has a button to add a config file, when I select that it launches a file open dialog
I'm not sure why any of this this is necessary, my clusters are visable when I open the kubernetes perspective on the left

my config files are stored in ~/.kube
and are specified as a list of absolute file paths in env var KUBECONFIG separated by ;
I keep separate config files per cluster that I connect to

Please can the unnecessary and annoying message be prevented.
I have the option of muting all info and warning messages for the extension,
perhaps this should be a debug message ... but then again why does it think it can't find the config when I can clearly see all of my clusters.