feat: add global optional user goosehints file #73
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No concerns with the implementation, just some thoughts below:
Developers typically work within a technical domain, and I'm guessing they would use this concept of global goosehints to describe information relevant to that domain that is applicable across projects.
However, sometimes you use Goose to explore other domains (e.g. working in a frontend project despite being an ML engineer), where some of this context would end up disrupting Goose's performance.
A couple ideas:
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Perhaps it would be worthwhile prompting users on
goose session startto see if they want to use their global goosehints for that particular session? -
Another option could be having goosehints be added sequentially from parent directories from the CWD. That could mean you would have some root level goosehints, as well as project level goosehints, etc. An example below:
~/Development/.goosehints
~/Development/java/.goosehints
~/Development/java/buyer-subs/.goosehints
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@lukealvoeiro yeah I did think of that - when you say sequentially added - you mean when goose starts a session or when code moves around dirs as part of the session? |
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could we put this in |
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yep could be in goose config - but I don't know if we want to commit to making it more complicated/smart just yet? ease into it? |
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is in goose config dir now |
| @@ -39,9 +39,15 @@ def system(self) -> str: | |||
| """Retrieve system configuration details for developer""" | |||
| hints_path = Path(".goosehints") | |||
| system_prompt = Message.load("prompts/developer.jinja").text | |||
| home_hints_path = Path.home() / ".config/goose/.goosehints" | |||
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It doesn't seem necessary to use a hidden file when it's already in a hidden folder. It might be good to log an error if the dotfile exists though, just to avoid confusion.
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@vfiano yeah can change it, wouldn't be too confusing as it is called .goosehints elsewhere?
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addresses: #72
from
~/.config/goose/.goosehints: