eclipse-theia/theia

Notify agents about external file changes

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#17,710 opened on Jun 25, 2026

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When and agent reads a file and the file is then later modified by another source (user, other agent), the agent will not be aware of this. Ideally, the session would capture which files an agent has read (and written) and notify the agent that it was changed.

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