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PDF files misread as text by read_file tool

Cluster 43059 · agent. Data as of

3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
2open PRs
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. see the attempts below.
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Still open
1 issue and 2 PRs.

A bug where read_file treats PDF files as plain text rather than binary, causing large raw-byte dumps that exceed context limits. The fix adds .pdf to BINARY_EXTENSIONS to prevent this behavior.

Open issues1

  • Issue#43059read_file reads PDFs as text (.pdf excluded from BINARY_EXTENSIONS; content sniff samples only first 1000 bytes = ASCII header) → ~100KB dump exceeds context → compression-reset loop

Open PRs2

  • PR#43064fix(tools): add .pdf to BINARY_EXTENSIONS to prevent read_file from dumping raw PDF bytes
  • PR#43124fix(tools): treat PDFs as binary in read_file (#43059)
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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