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Desktop file pane: no refresh / new-file detection; viewer-only — files created by the agent are invisible until restart #51552
Description
Summary: The desktop file pane doesn't detect files created by the agent during a session (no refresh mechanism), so new files are invisible until the app restarts. It's also a viewer, not an editor — no editing capability, which combines with the stale-listing problem to force a round-trip to VS Code for any real file work.
Repro: Ask the agent to create a markdown file → the pane's tree doesn't show it → restart the app → it appears.
Expected: File tree watches the workspace (fswatch/inotify) and refreshes; ideally the pane gains basic edit capability (a simple editor integration — even read-only + open-in-editor handoff would help).
Workaround: open -a "Visual Studio Code" <path> externally.
Otherwise the product is excellent — this is the one workflow gap that breaks the loop.
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