It seems I'm unable to access the file sample.txt

[ceeyangwen]

Hi,
I used FileSystem MCP to connect my local file. But when I try to answer file content about the file, then the result will report
"It seems I'm unable to access the file sample.txt. Could you specify a path within the allowed directories, or provide the contents of the file here?"

And I could list all files by MCP server. So If i want to access the file content, how should I do .
Thanks

[rm-openai]

Could you share some code? What model are you using?

[ceeyangwen]

Could you share some code? What model are you using?
Thanks for reply. I used MCP File system in Agent on my code. Then I used another way to solution this problem. The way is using absolute path to indicate which file I want to visit, that works in my code
Here is old code
async with MCPServerStdio( name="File system MCP Service", params={ "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", /users/user/tmp ] }, ) as file_server: agent = Agent( name="Assistant", model="gpt-4o", instructions=''' I want to ask some question about sample.txt ''', mcp_servers=[file_server], )
it will failed first. then I changed the path to absolute path: /users/user/tmp/sample.txt in instructions, then it works

[rm-openai]

Got it. Yeah absolute path makes sense!