AutoGPT overwrites same text file with each action instead of appending to the end.

[johnjac-cisco]

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Which Operating System are you using?

Docker

Which version of Auto-GPT are you using?

Latest Release

Do you use OpenAI GPT-3 or GPT-4?

GPT-4

Which area covers your issue best?

Challenges

Describe your issue.

The task was to give a detailed explanation of something, and auto-gpt broke the task in to several "writing sections" but instead of appending each section to the text file, it over wrote each time
activity.log

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[W3Warp]

This has to with STM not contain enough context, in other words agpt has forgotten why its doing what its doing. One possible workaround is to have more detailed goals and role. Where core concepts remain in STM as they are viewed as crucial to function according to AutoGPT. This is my experience anyway.

[Boostrix]

you can also tell it explicitly not to overwrite existing files - also see the update_file PR: #3643

[bishi3000]

There are quite a few ways to solve this issue. IMO the current implementation is quite prone to loosing the context of what it is currently doing (or was just doing).

If using simple files is the desired storage mechanism (as opposed to a document DB for example) then, maybe a scheme such as writing into a folder names by a session ID, or creating filenames with a session ID suffix, where the 'session ID' relates to the current task.

This would also help for cleanup of files afterwards

[W3Warp]

There are quite a few ways to solve this issue. IMO the current implementation is quite prone to loosing the context of what it is currently doing (or was just doing).

If using simple files is the desired storage mechanism (as opposed to a document DB for example) then, maybe a scheme such as writing into a folder names by a session ID, or creating filenames with a session ID suffix, where the 'session ID' relates to the current task.

This would also help for cleanup of files afterwards

#3536 (comment)

[Boostrix]

There is also the update_file PR which contains related discussions

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