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SHOW_FILES

Active Navigation: Opens the File Explorer UI at a specific path and optionally highlights files. Use this to 'show' the user something.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
pathstringyesDirectory to open
highlight_filesarray—List of filenames to highlight/glow

How to use it

You normally trigger this by describing what you want in chat — the agent selects SHOW_FILES automatically. For example:

Try saying
“use file manager to show …”

In a workflow

As a step in a multi-step workflow DAG:

json
{
  "id": "s1",
  "agent": "file_manager",
  "action": "SHOW_FILES",
  "args": {
    "path": "/Users/me/Documents/file.txt",
    "highlight_files": []
  },
  "depends_on": [],
  "outputs": []
}

Direct call

For scripting, call it directly via POST /execute_tool. Every tool returns { success, message, data }.

bash
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/execute_tool \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tool_name":"SHOW_FILES","args":{"path":"/Users/me/Documents/file.txt","highlight_files":[]}}'

Part of the file_manager plugin. Browse the full Plugin & Tool Catalog or the relevant feature guide.