builtin_create_new_file tool doesn't create missing folders and exceptions are not propagated to LLM

[pczekaj]

Before submitting your bug report

• [x] I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• [x] I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• [x] I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS: Macos
- Continue version: 1.0.8
- IDE version: IntelliJ 
- Model: sonnet 3.7

Description

builtin_create_new_file tool doesn't create folders so tool fails if agent wants to create file in non existing folder. Every failing tool invocation is big problem in agentic mode for Anthropic models since continue dev is silently eating tool exceptions and not sending them back to LLM

To reproduce

In Agent mode write something like:

create new file in jokes/first.txt with random joke

if jokes folder won't exist then this operation would fail which is very problematic for Sonnet model since continue dev is not sending tool results failures back to LLM so every next call in given conversation will fail with

{"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"messages.16: `tool_use` ids were found without `tool_result` blocks immediately after: toolu_019KXfAnAG2KHfxUYHYHKDxB. Each `tool_use` block must have a corresponding `tool_result` block in the next message."}}

Log output

Error handling message of type writeFile: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/someone/IdeaProjects/something/jokes/first.txt (No such file or directory)

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[vldF]

it is important

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