{"slug": "agents-repeatedly-re-reading-sent-files", "title": "Agents repeatedly re-reading sent files.", "summary": "A user reports that AI agents across multiple models and conversations repeatedly re-read files attached in earlier messages of the same chat, forcing them to explicitly instruct the agent to read each file only once. The user says the behavior occurred more than three times in old logs, slows responses on large log files, and causes the agent to treat the old file as new information; they abandoned affected threads and started new ones without attachments. The user could not provide a specific instance or screenshot because replicating the bug without exposing personal information or logs proved difficult.", "body_md": "The agents will continually, every message I send re-read attached files from previous messages within the current existing chat. This persists across multiple AI models and conversations, I have to explicitly explain to only read once when I send the file to stop it from happening, that usually works but sometimes it will go back and re-read it then remember it wasn't supposed to and \"discard\" this information. It's an issue because it generally takes a while, especially on a huge log file. It also treats it like \"new\" information and then sorta complains that I didn't send it a new log, which is true but why read the old file as if it's new information.\n\nSorry for not having a specific instance or screenshot at this time, I tried to replicate the bug without having my own personal information or logs visible but it was difficult to get it to repeat like that. I do note it has happened more than three times in old logs and I usually just gave up on using that thread and would make a new one with no attachments.\n\nI expected it to remember the file is not a new file each new message with no attachment that I send.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-repeatedly-re-reading-sent-files", "canonical_source": "https://kagifeedback.org/d/11693-agents-repeatedly-re-reading-sent-files/1", "published_at": "2026-10-15 18:54:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 18:55:41.133555+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": [], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-repeatedly-re-reading-sent-files", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-repeatedly-re-reading-sent-files.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-repeatedly-re-reading-sent-files.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-repeatedly-re-reading-sent-files.jsonld"}}