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This was bad wording on my part. I wrote "open" but that should have been "files in the workspace/project". Really, "open" WRT files is so overloaded already, they can be in the workspace, have an editor tab open for them, or have an active file handle, to name just three.

> You can always improve, but pretending like there’s an easy solution is lazy - if it was easy it would have been done.

I claimed that it is possible, not that it is easy.

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Im highlighting that defining that sandbox policy cohesively in a way that works for all the different extensions types you’d want to support and doesn’t overwhelm the user with permission fatigue is difficult as to be impossible.

Browsers have a different problem - they protect different websites against each other. The IDE should probably protect you against extensions being able to access arbitrary files on disk, but even that’s difficult (eg a bundled linter often wants to read user defaults in a central location. But protecting even further than that is even harder, especially as here where the access was to the actual repo not anything else.

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