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Find a way around the 20 file limit

Feature Request

Currently there’s a 20 file limit because of the way that Substage functions, passing in the names of all the individual files to a command - it would force the LLM to create a potentially extremely long Terminal command with a large number of files, and is likely to break down at some point.

What if you have 10,000 files selected in a directory of 11,000 files, and want to zip them? Probably Substage isn’t the right tool for the job! But is there anything we can do to improve behaviour?

Posted by joethephish ·
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  • joethephish

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    Apr 7, 2025

    Batch processing now works in the majority of cases.

    We still have a limit for operations such as zipping, where you’re passing in lots of files into a single command, but I raised the limit to 100 files, since it’s not anything that the LLM ever has to see.