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[ENHANCEMENT] Support auto-approve for list of directories outside of workspace #9428

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Problem (one or two sentences)

At the moment we only can auto-approve all outside workspace directories

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It would be great if we could give permission to a list of directories instead (e.g. for browsing framework source code, example: crash dump stack trace analysis)

Context (who is affected and when)

Happens whenever the coding assistant want to access files outside the workspace, this could be for example for accessing the source of a framework in use, in my case for example the Qt GUI framework source when analyzing crash dumps.

Desired behavior (conceptual, not technical)

User can specify a list of directories which file access (read/write) is auto-approved

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Given agent needs outside workspace directory access
when user has set this directory in the accepted auto-approve list
then agent should be able to access the directory without additional user input

Proposed approach (optional)

List of directories text box in the auto-approve tab where i can set a list of directories that are auto-approved for file access

wildcard support would be great

Trade-offs / risks (optional)

to generic rules set be the user, might be useful to have enabled only for project/worksprace not for all projects

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