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title: "Filesystem Agent"
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# Filesystem Agent

**Type:** `nodetool.agents.FilesystemAgent`

**Namespace:** `nodetool.agents`

## Description

Inspect and transform files and folders in the workspace from a prompt.
    agent, filesystem, files, folders, io

## Properties

| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|----------|------|-------------|---------|
| model | `language_model` | Model used for task planning and execution reasoning. | `{"type":"language_model","provider":"empty","id...` |
| prompt | `str` | Prompt describing the requested task. | `` |
| timeout_seconds | `int` | Maximum runtime for agent execution. | `180` |
| max_output_chars | `int` | Maximum serialized output chars before truncation. | `200000` |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| text | `str` |  |

## Related Nodes

Browse other nodes in the [nodetool.agents](./) namespace.