@!filename override to force the reading of an entire file

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Nov 16, 2025 by mmaunder Closed Jan 31, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What feature would you like to see?

We're all aware of the file read limits, but sometimes we have an absolutely mission critical file that must be read in its entirety, even if it costs us a huge chunk of context. Examples:

  • A file defining the phase of work about to be implemented.
  • A file defining software architecture, where a complete understanding is needed

Keep the default, but give us a way to force a full read. Please. It would be a game changer for a wide range of tasks. I'm suggesting an "at bang" operator which could be interpreted as "Read the entire file you must.".

Thanks, and thanks for an amazing product that is moving the entire software engineering field forward.

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 9 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #6733
  • #5915

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mmaunder · 9 months ago

Not duplicates.

etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

This feature request has received very few upvotes in the past three months, so I'm going to close it.