[jonfw]

This is a very valuable use case for me personally. I frequently have the problem that I change things on the filesystem in a separate tab and the agent context gets out of sync. It fails on subsequent edits, often tries to reverse the changes that I made, and many times I have to copy/paste the command I ran and it's output back into the agent window.

Your complaint is likely a product design decision rather than a engineering capacity prioritization one. As you've noted the fix is pretty trivial. I imagine that some designer or product person is intentionally holding this back for one reason or another

[iamdamian]

Claude Code has an elegant solution to the problem you mention, without trying to cram everything into a single nested pane (which feels wrong to me).

In Claude Code, when you edit a file independent from the agent, it automatically notices and says something like "I see you've made a change. Let me take a look."

I wish Gemini CLI would've taken a similar approach, since it seems to fit better with a CLI and its associated Unix philosophy.

[antonvs]

Gemini CLI notices changes when it tries to change something and doesn't find what it expects. Then it tells you it's going to reread, and typically handles it fine.