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Bug: File rewrites get truncated
Describe the bug When having Goose edit files, it often removes my content and adds some comment to the effect of
// ... [rest of the class implementation stays exactly the same] ...
Of course, this causes the user to lose content and then they have to use more tokens having Goose restore what it accidentally omitted.
I imagine this is due to the snippets provided by the LLM. Can we add/remove from files without total rewrites?
as a workaround, one community member suggested scoping instructions to a specific part of the file (the xyz function). but dont use line numbers, it really struggles with that
Yea, this does happen and is dependent on the LLM as well. The text_editor_tool in the Developer extension can write (create/overwrite) a file with content or replace a string in a file with new string. Ideally, the latter is what we want to happen for large files so the LLM doesn't get "lazy" and output those comments. We've done some tests and see it mostly work well with claude 3.5 sonnet v2, but it's also not guaranteed (95% of the time it did the right thing). Curious what models are being used when this is seen?
Another potential approach is to put into the goosehints file to always use str_replace instead of write tool for large files. Haven't tried this myself.
Also, if your session is long (using up a good chunk of the context), the model might get more lazy. If possible, start new sessions frequently.
will close this as this hasn't shown up for a long time across models of all kinds (there were some changes to the write tool - we also have editor fast apply models as an option now)
