VS Code Extension: Improve @ search to support folders (not just files)
Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Sep 10, 2025 by BenJackGill Closed Aug 6, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What feature would you like to see?
Summary
Please allow the extension’s @ quick search to return and select folders, not only files. This unlocks folder-level actions without leaving the search flow.
Current behavior
@ search lists files only. Matching folders are ignored.
Are you interested in implementing this feature?
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Additional information
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7 Comments
+1 very useful.
if possible, please directly copy whatever roo code are doing and use gpt5 as LLM.
or even simpler, just buy roo code, much better bargain than buying winsurf. you guys are rich enough to acquire such small but extremely important company to expand your market share about coding.
I agree this would be nice. For the moment though, it's not been super hard to right click the folder, click
Copy Relative Pathand then paste that into Codex with backticks. But just like file linking, much easier to use @up
+1 very useful but also for Codex CLI.
There are many cases in which it is necessary to reference a folder so that the AI agent takes into account a group of files to perform its task.
Gemini CLI has this functionality and uses it frequently.
I find this functionality very helpful in Cursor. It is also very helpful to be able to drag a folder/file inline into your chat window.
I also feel like this would be very helpful, both @ referencing of folders and being able to drag folders/files in.
I often want codex to "take a look at the three files in this folder" and going and copying the pathname takes a while.
Cursor, zed and Claude code ide extension all support this.
This is now supported.