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[FEATURE]: Disable LSP for external directories
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Describe the enhancement you want to request
Problem:
When agents (primary or subagents) explore external directories—such as cloned repos for reading documentation—OpenCode spawns LSP servers for those directories. This causes:
- Long startup times (30+ seconds for large TypeScript monorepos or Java/JDTLS projects)
- Wasted CPU/memory for LSP that provides no value
- No benefit—when exploring external code for context, diagnostics aren't used
Use case:
Clone a library's repo to let the LLM search its docs/source. Only need file reading—LSP is unnecessary and harmful due to startup overhead.
Proposed solution:
{
"lsp": {
"external_directories": false
}
}
Current workarounds (insufficient):
-
"lsp": false— Disables LSP entirely, including main project - Per-LSP
"disabled": true— Too broad, affects all directories
Related issues (not duplicates):
- #6692 — Runtime LSP toggle (addresses LLM attention drift, not external dir spawning)
- #7184 — Share LSP with IDE (reuse existing LSP, not prevent spawning)
- #6997 — LSP timeout config (doesn't prevent unnecessary spawning)