Codebase indexing: mark some directories as EXCLUDED

[stargazer33]

We are talking about https://kilocode.ai/docs/features/codebase-indexing

OK, files in .gitignore are not indexed, right?

But, there are files that must be in repository - AND i do not want to have them in Kilocode index.
Some data files used to evaluate something, some E2E test data files for example... I have many of them, all in Git.

IntelliJ supports this: Right-click on some directory, select "Mark Directory as" from the context menu-> Select "Excluded"
In an ideal world, directories that are excluded in IntelliJ should be excluded from indexing in Kilo.
Probably the same for VSCode.
Kilocode CLI can just import these settings.

I would say, having fancy GUI is not a requirement - I can edit some config file.

[adamhill]

I would additionally love to have a Filter from codebase_search() *results as a quick pick file / folder glob from the chat view.

Afiter the LLM has read an .md file in explaining the architecture of something, from instructions or as inlcuded in a folder in the project. The results from CBI are just noise.

They are useful for the LLM to find at the initial prompting, but afterwards when the LLM is just trying to find the actual code, they become noise and after a few attempts the LLM will fall back to grep

This is also a micro-request for us to think about adding re-ranking to CBI.

[stargazer33]

Just learned about .kilocodeignore
It should be explained (documentation, GUI help/hyperlink) how indexing and .kilocodeignore works together.
My preference: what is in .kilocodeignore -- ignored and not indexed.