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ArnaudContet
opened on May 18, 2026

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- OS: Win11
- Continue version: 1.2.22
- IDE version: VS Code

Description

I am using Continue as an extension in VS Code to use a local LLM running in LM Studio 0.4.17.
In Plan mode to scaffold the python scripts.

When attempting to read large files:
read_file failed: File is too large (33450 tokens vs 16384 token limit)

The files I need to use to develop my scripts are not easily fractioned, so the hard 16k limit is a problem.

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