I’ve seen the prototyper make net zero changes lately. Or, it will make changes and I will see them (eg. +6 -8). But then when the task completes, the numbers will change, or disappear. I’ve had three actions in a row where it was tasked to make simple type fixes, then did nothing. Notice the em…

@DoctorDev2023 I’ve reported this issue internally. Continue to post example on this thread to help with troubleshooting. Internal ticket # b/430108771

It seemed like only certain files would encounter this issue and I was able to get around it by asking it to refactor those files and rename them, which seemed to clear the cache of whatever was preventing changes from being written to these files.

Another occurrence, it is impossible for the prototyper to make changes to this file: [image]

Most egregious example yet. [image]

James, This is a massive blocker. Do you have any updates on this ticket you can share? I’m about to test deploying new workspaces as a last resort.

That last example is a good one. Are you switching between Prototyper and Code View? If you make edits in code view, Prototyper’s context will not be aware of those changes so when it is tasked to edit the file it could delete things it doesn’t think should be there or add things it think should …

I leave code view and prototyper open in two windows as the same time always, as well as a publicly exposed live preview page and my production app, for four windows total, typically with dev tools open on all but code view. I’ve never thought to ask it to re-read the files again, I hadn’t consider…

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DoctorDev2023 July 9, 2025, 2:01am 11

Most egregious example yet.

Natural_language_write_file tool -> "Internal error occurred."

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