Rider 2026.1 EAP 4 Problem with AI assistant and .aiignore file

Created February 18, 2026 08:20

I use an .aiignore file which prevents AI-Assistant accessing all of my source code because of my companies AI policy. Even if i disable AI-Assistant for my project, when i copy and paste code in the editor i get the messagebox “AI has no access to the file”. After clicking ok, the code is pasted. But in the HttpClient even paste do not work. I could'nt paste a screenshot here so i have uploaded it, see Upload id: 2026_02_18_EHymioP2gEp99RfEZZfHPs (file: rider64_2026-02-17_14-14-57.png)

3 comments

Vladislav Kuzmeniuk

Created February 20, 2026 16:01

Hi there,

I tried to reproduce this behavior with .aiignore and AI Assistant disabled, but couldn’t get the same result on my side.

Could you please share:

the minimal steps to reproduce (where the .aiignore file is located, whether AI Assistant is disabled per-project, and what/where you paste)
your detailed IDE version (Help | About) and the JetBrains AI Assistant plugin version (Settings | Plugins | Installed)
if possible, a short screen recording showing the pop-up and paste failing in the HTTP Client editor

After you share this, we can open a public YouTrack report so the team can investigate and you can follow updates.

Andreas Seibt

Created February 23, 2026 07:21

I just installed the latest preview and the problem is still present:

JetBrains Rider 2026.1 EAP 5
Build #RD-261.21525.32, built on February 19, 2026
Source revision: 14a55f577c234
Licensed to JetBrains Rider EAP user: Andreas Seibt
Expiration date: March 21, 2026
Runtime version: 25.0.2+1-b329.66 amd64137.0.17-261-b62
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Toolkit: sun.awt.windows.WToolkit
Windows 11.0
Exception reporter ID: 2210241c4285258-dc94-470f-98e7-dbeb9deb90b5
.NET Core v10.0.2 x64 (Server GC)
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Concurrent GC, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 2048M
Cores: 16
Registry:
ide.experimental.ui=true
find.in.files.split=false
llm.show.ai.promotion.window.on.start=false
find.in.files.split.actions=false
rider.debugger.dotnet.mixed.mode.enabled=true
Non-Bundled Plugins:
org.jetbrains.plugins.yaml (261.21525.39)
Docker (261.21525.38)
tanvd.grazi (261.21525.39)
com.intellij.ml.llm (261.21525.32)
com.intellij.jsonpath (261.21525.39)
JavaScriptDebugger (261.21525.39)
com.intellij.settingsSync (261.21525.39)
org.jetbrains.plugins.gitlab (261.21525.39)
org.jetbrains.plugins.github (261.21525.39)
me.rafaelldi.aspire (2.4.1)
Abc.MoqComplete.Rider (2024.2.0.1)
com.schwarzit.spectral-intellij-plugin (3.0.3)
com.intellij.react (261.21525.39)
com.jetbrains.restClient (261.21525.39)
zielu.gittoolbox (600.2.3+253)
org.sonarlint.idea (11.13.0.84156)
com.intellij.resharper.azure (4.7.2)

AI-Assistant version is 261.21525.32 and disabled for the project. My .aiignore is located at project root and has only one line containing “*”. It makes no sense to capture a screen recording as nothing happens after i confirm the popup.

Steps to reproduce:

- Select a request

- Copy the selected text with Ctrl-Ins

- place the cursor somewhere else in the file

- try to paste the text with Shift-Ins

Vladislav Kuzmeniuk

Created February 23, 2026 15:39

Thanks for the detailed description!

Based on this information, I've created the YouTrack request:
LLM-25002 Rider 2026.1 EAP 5 : “AI has no access to the file” popup appears on paste even when AI Assistant is disabled – Please vote and follow for updates.

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