microsoft / microsoft/vscode

chat: hangs failing to ask permission to write file outside repo

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Description

Version: 1.130.0-insider
Commit: 6af4928d5e2e07f3180a59ab7f326c68e55204ee
Date: 2026-07-17T09:47:26Z
Electron: 42.6.0
ElectronBuildId: 14623276
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.0
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-117-generic
Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a workspace
2. Ask the agent to do work inside that workspace
3. Ask the agent to write down what it did, in a file outside the workspace.
The agent looks like it's working forever, but it's actually waiting on permissions

That session then seems to be permanently hung for tools that affect the filesystem; I've worked around it by forking the session before the request that caused the hang.

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