Insiders Feedback: PRECISE file patching and multiple toolsets in the URL

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, go
Domain
backend-api-design, tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the server-side implementations of create_or_update_file and push_files, then trace how remote-connector URLs parse toolset and header options. The issue does not identify files or tests, so scope the patch format, blob-SHA conflict handling, and URL syntax before implementation. Done means a requested exact or unified diff applies safely against the specified blob and conflicting changes are rejected, while the URL can select a bounded set of toolsets.

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Description

Version: Insiders

Feature: PATCHES ; CUSTOM HEADERS

Feedback:

Two things from daily use through a remote connector:

  1. Precise patching Right now changing one line means pushing the whole file back through create_or_update_file / push_files. For a 200KB doc that's a lot of tokens to add a comma, and a long rewrite through a model is an easy way to corrupt the file. Try add one line to ~MB .ts file. A patch tool would fix it: either old/new string replacement (must match exactly once) or a unified diff, applied server-side against a given blob SHA, rejected on conflict.

  2. Toolset selection in the remote URL The default toolset is too weak, and x/all is too big xd
    every tool schema eats context on each request. I'd like to pick a few toolsets in the URL itself (e.g repos + pull_requests + actions), remote connector config can't set custom headers.

Win & Win situation: a one-line edit to a large file costs roughly the size of the diff, and one connector URL exposes selection of tools instead of all of them.
LESS BANDWIDTH MORE EFFICIENCY

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