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Let a conversation know which project you mean — and what it can and cannot see.
By default AI Chat knows nothing about your projects at all. Connect one and the conversation is told the project type, its name and the names of its top-level files and folders (for example pom.xml, src, config.yml) — not the files inside those folders, and not what any file contains — enough to talk about your project rather than a made-up one, and enough to stop you re-typing "it is a Paper plugin called ShopGUI" at the start of every message.
This is the part worth knowing before you rely on it: connecting a project sends a single line like Minecraft Plugin: ShopGUI followed by the names at the top of the project, such as pom.xml, src. A file deeper down, like src/main/java/Shop.java, is never named, and the contents of files are never sent.
So "what kind of project is this?" is a question it can answer, and "why is this command not registering?" or anything about Shop.java is not — it has never seen that file, let alone the code in it. Paste the file in question into the message when you need an answer about what is actually written in it.
For questions that need the whole project read, open the project in the Code Studio and ask there: the IDE chat does read your files.
Pick a project from the project picker in the chat. A banner then shows which project the conversation is connected to, so you always know which one the assistant has been told about. Disconnect from the same banner.
This is for asking questions about a project. Nothing you say here changes a file — to actually edit the project, open it in the Code Studio.
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