`@` is not listing the available files

[flexdinesh]

Description

I'm coming back to opencode after a few weeks. @ used to autocomplete available files in the dir. It's not doing that anymore. It's only showing available agents.

In my dir, I have .ai/prompts/init.md. I am not able to lookup that filepath in the tui input.

OpenCode version

1.0.223

Operating System

macOS 26.1

Terminal

Ghostty

[github-actions]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• File search via @ symbol is very slow in large projects, possibly due to lack of debounce and search triggering on every character #2772: File search via @ symbol is very slow in large projects, possibly due to lack of debounce
• CJK characters break some features like @ mentions #3734: CJK characters break some features like @ mentions
• [BUG] Autocomplete dropdown conflicts with permission dialog - visual overlap and keyboard event capture #5820: Autocomplete dropdown conflicts with permission dialog (related to autocomplete functionality)

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

[flexdinesh]

I just checked in other projects. @ works and shows up file path suggestions in other projects. For some reason it's not working in this particular project. If it helps, this project has not be initialised as a git repo yet.

[flexdinesh]

I initialised the project into a git repo and now the files autocomplete when using @. Is this by design?

[abeisleem]

It could be a side-effect of the mechanism to ignore files in .gitignore. You could argue it's a security feature as well since typically, .env files are git-ignored.

Try it your self. Add a file to .gitignore and it will no longer show in the suggested files.

[flexdinesh]

But non git repos don't have a .gitignore right? Should the harness still ignore all files if the dir is not a git repo?

[Yimi81]

@abeisleem how can i fix this side effect while keeping the .gitignore file unchanged? I hope to have the ability to @ all files.

It could be a side-effect of the mechanism to ignore files in .gitignore. You could argue it's a security feature as well since typically, .env files are git-ignored.

Try it your self. Add a file to .gitignore and it will no longer show in the suggested files.

[edward821220]

same issue
I can't mention files

Adding a .gitignore file still achieves the same result.

[abeisleem]

The file system is designed to work with version-controlled projects and expects ignore patterns to be present.

A workaround would be to create a minimal .gitignore/.ignore in the root dir

touch .gitignore

# OR

touch .ignore

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More technical details:

In packages/opencode/src/file/index.ts, the list() function checks if the project is a git repository and loads .gitignore/.ignore files to filter results packages/opencode/src/file/index.ts. When no .gitignore exists, the ignore logic may not be handling the empty case properly.

Tangentially, there's also:

1. packages/opencode/src/file/ignore.ts which ignores files that are typically ignored.
2. packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/tui/component/prompt/autocomplete.tsx which is responsible for autocomplete functionality.

And I'm not sure how the maintainers feel about not following this pattern for security (and maybe even context bloating) purposes. Naively tagging: @rekram1-node? I'd be happy to work a PR for this if you deem this behavior is worth supporting.