Repo-map tool slow with large project

[chezsmithy]

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

Relevant environment info

- OS: MacOS
- Continue version: 1.1.1
- IDE version: latest
- Model:
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Description

When you ask chat to find a specific subdirectory and it defaults to the repomap tool and the project is large (e.g. continue codebase) the tool appears to hang with the status of generating. When debugging, I’m noting the repomap is generating from scratch and is very slow.

I’d be interested if we could move the repo-map generation to the background like embedding generation to help maintain a repo-map off the chat interaction.

Curious in how we might also only allow the tool be available when the repo-map is created to avoid poor user experience.

To reproduce

Have a large project like the continue code base.
In chat ask “Run the tests in the core directory using commands in package.json in that directory.”

Observe the repomap tool get called.

It appears to hang.

Note the chat entry box is also active making for a confusing end user experience.

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