I actually ask it to make a list of files it wants to examine and then approve on case-by-case basis. It cut my usage substantially.

One other thing I wondered about: is all that additional and possibly irrelevant information harmful? I believe that it is. I think it causes the model to make bad decisions. In long workflows, once a bad decision is made, I find it frequently compromises the rest of the implementation.

So I try to keep it tightly scoped. Otherwise I get hilariously bad results sometimes. Ex: yesterday I let Argon medium run for 40 minutes. Welp, that was a big revert.