#Thread
stoic moat
I believe at the moment that repo context aware chat does not actually have previous message context. @shell gate to confirm
shell gate
ok thanks icp. I think this is a bug and not expected behavior
we have at least one other report of similar behavior
umbral gale
Should I uninstall and reinstall?
Or is there something special I should do to give access to the code?
shell gate
I misspoke. You should enable codeium search if you don't have it enabled
If you don't enable search, you can only ask about directories that you have edited recently
for example, try to edit some file somewhere then ask about files related to that file
it doesn't have to be open but it has to be in a shared package or similar
umbral gale
This isn't working
Tried restarting VSCode, enabling and disabling extension etc.
Is this normal behaviour?
shell gate
OH!
umbral gale
I'm getting a bit more, but a bit surprised it can't find a file I named
shell gate
yes we also don't track certain filetypes
prisma is one of them
sorry we can add support for that soon. maybe try asking it about something else.
umbral gale
and .tsx?
shell gate
no tsx should be fine
umbral gale
Then how come it can't find the filepath?
I wrote "Please tell me where the CompanyProfile.tsx file is"
shell gate
Ask it a question about the file itself
umbral gale
That works, but I'm testing codebase wide search
shell gate
if you want to search for a file, use the search tool
if you want to ask a question about your codebase, use chat
umbral gale
I want to see if Codeium can understand how different files and components interact
shell gate
Yes so perhaps the best way is to ask that
umbral gale
The search tool isn't enough for that
shell gate
Not ask about a single file
shell gate
For example, can you try to ask it a question that requires multiple different pieces of context?
umbral gale
Okay give me a second
shell gate
Regardless, I agree that the chat responses should be more intuitive when it doesn't have the right context, it shouldn't say "I don't have access to your codebase"
umbral gale
If it cannot do something simple like this, how does codebase wide search work?
Are you sure there isn't still a bug here?
shell gate
The first question is ambiguous
It does not say "give me a list of pages in our codebase"
The second is a prompt engineering issue that I agree is confusing and arguably is a bug
umbral gale
It knows I am referring to my codebase, since it responds "about your codebase"
shell gate
If you could humor me for a moment, can you ask it "From our codebase: can you give me a list of pages that contain a button with the string edit in it"
umbral gale
This worked
Any general tips on how to wrangle this? Has Codeium got a doc anywhere?
Like on how to best prompt Codeium?
I actually dropped off for a month and told a bunch of friends in our community Codeium doesn't do codebase wide search. Some are YC exited founders.
So, I think its really important somehow solve all possible ways the above can manifest!
umbral gale
Any general tips on how to wrangle this? Has Codeium got a doc anywhere?
This'd be really helpful going forwards, then as I use it more I'll become your biggest advocate
shell gate
Good idea! We are keeping track of some tips here https://codeium.com/faq#Personalization
but will make more updates based on your helpful feedback
umbral gale
Thanks I sent you a friend request, I have some ideas about how I can help and contribute
I think, we need a really detailed guide so users can understand what Codeium's good at and bad at, with examples. We also need to find a way of tracking how many people above that unintended behaviour's affecting ^ The installation page on the site also needs updating so Codeium chat is highlighted, not just code suggestions.