feat(files): folder operations for the File block, and folders as scope

Adds folder operations to file_v5 and the agent tool surface, and makes a folder
a scope on the file operations that already existed rather than a second set of
operations beside them.

New operations: List, Create Folder, Move Folder, Delete Folder, Restore Folder,
and Move File. List answers "what is in here" — subfolders and files together,
direct children by default, the whole subtree under Recursive, subject to Max
Depth and Search. Entries are a discriminated union on kind, and the listing is
capped with a truncated flag rather than unbounded now that it includes files.

Read, Get Content, Compress and Append gain an optional Folder above their file
picker. It narrows what the picker offers; on the three read operations it also
stands for that folder's files when none are picked, resolved when the workflow
runs so a file added later is included. Append only narrows the picker, but the
folder does travel when the advanced entry supplies a name rather than an id,
because a name is only unique inside a folder. Write gains a folder destination,
placed above File Name because it names where before it names what.

Two things are worth a reviewer's attention.

Path handling. Two spellings circulate: the stored display path, which
backslash-escapes a slash inside a folder name, and the canonical
percent-encoded path the tools take. A folder genuinely named "Q3/Q4" is one
level in both and two if either is split on "/". folderPathSegments picks the
parser by the leading slash the canonical form always carries, and
resolveFolderIdsForPaths, isFileInFolderScope and selectDirectoryEntries are
pure and tested against exactly that case. Where a folder is known, the code
resolves by id and never builds a path-shaped reference at all.

Delete Folder's recursive flag is a guard, not a scope. Without it, deleting a
non-empty folder fails, and it is user-only so a model asked to clean up a
folder cannot set it on a guess. This is deliberately the inverse of the read
family's Include Subfolders, which is a scope and defaults on.

Five file operations widen from copilot-only delegation to admit the executor,
each justified by a tool in this change: files.list and files.folders.list for
file_list, and files.folders.update / delete / restore for their tools. Principal
kinds are unchanged and copilot keeps every operation it had.

Author: mzxchandra

apps/docs/content/docs/integrations/file.mdx

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ Read workspace file objects from selected files or canonical workspace file IDs.
 | --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
 | `fileId` | string | No | Canonical workspace file ID, or an array of canonical workspace file IDs. |
 | `fileInput` | file | No | Selected workspace file object. |
+| `folderPaths` | array | No | Folders whose files are included, as canonical percent-encoded paths, e.g. \["/Reports/Q3%20Results"\]. Nested folders are included by default, and the folders are read at run time, so a file added later is picked up. |
+| `includeSubfolders` | boolean | No | Whether nested folders are read too. Defaults to true; set false to take only the folders’ direct files. |
 
 #### Output
 
@@ -61,6 +63,8 @@ Extract the text content of one or more workspace files from selected file objec
 | --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
 | `fileId` | string | No | Canonical workspace file ID, or an array of canonical workspace file IDs. |
 | `fileInput` | file | No | Selected workspace file object, or an array of file objects. |
+| `folderPaths` | array | No | Folders whose files are included, as canonical percent-encoded paths, e.g. \["/Reports/Q3%20Results"\]. Nested folders are included by default, and the folders are read at run time, so a file added later is picked up. |
+| `includeSubfolders` | boolean | No | Whether nested folders are read too. Defaults to true; set false to take only the folders’ direct files. |
 
 #### Output
 
@@ -125,6 +129,7 @@ Create a new workspace file, either from text content or from an existing file.
 | Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
 | --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
 | `fileName` | string | No | File name \(e.g., "data.csv"\). Required when writing text; optional when storing a file, which keeps its own name unless this overrides it. If the name already exists, a numeric suffix is added automatically unless overwrite is enabled. |
+| `folderPath` | string | No | Folder to create the file in. Omit for the workspace root. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
 | `content` | string | No | The text content to write to the file. Provide exactly one of content or fileInput. |
 | `fileInput` | file | No | An existing file to store in the workspace, such as one produced by an earlier tool. Use this for anything that is not text — PDFs, images, audio, archives. Provide exactly one of content or fileInput. |
 | `contentType` | string | No | MIME type for new files \(e.g., "text/plain"\). Auto-detected from the file extension, or taken from the stored file, if omitted. |
@@ -148,6 +153,7 @@ Append content to an existing workspace file. The file must already exist. Conte
 | Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
 | --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
 | `fileName` | string | Yes | Name of an existing workspace file to append to. |
+| `folderPath` | string | No | Folder the file lives in. Naming it targets exactly one file when the same name exists in several folders. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
 | `content` | string | Yes | The text content to append to the file. |
 
 #### Output
@@ -169,6 +175,8 @@ Compress one or more workspace files into a single .zip archive stored in the wo
 | --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
 | `fileId` | string | No | Canonical workspace file ID, or an array of canonical workspace file IDs. |
 | `fileInput` | file | No | Selected workspace file object, or an array of file objects. |
+| `folderPaths` | array | No | Folders whose files are included, as canonical percent-encoded paths, e.g. \["/Reports/Q3%20Results"\]. Nested folders are included by default, and the folders are read at run time, so a file added later is picked up. |
+| `includeSubfolders` | boolean | No | Whether nested folders are read too. Defaults to true; set false to take only the folders’ direct files. |
 | `archiveName` | string | No | Name for the .zip archive \(e.g., "documents.zip"\). Defaults to the source file name when compressing a single file, otherwise "archive.zip". |
 
 #### Output
@@ -223,4 +231,114 @@ Enable or disable the public share link for a workspace file, and set its access
 | `hasPassword` | boolean | Whether the share is password-protected |
 | `allowedEmails` | array | Allowed emails/domains for email or SSO access |
 
+### List Files and Folders
+
+List what is inside a workspace folder: its subfolders and its files together. Lists direct children by default; set Recursive to walk the whole subtree.
+
+#### Input
+
+| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `path` | string | No | Folder to list. Omit to list from the workspace root. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
+| `recursive` | boolean | No | List everything beneath the path rather than only its direct children. Each entry carries its depth below the listed folder. |
+| `depth` | number | No | Deepest level to include when recursive, counted from the listed folder. 1 is direct children. |
+| `search` | string | No | Case-insensitive substring match against an entry name. Filters the result, so a deep match is still reported even when its parent folders do not match. |
+| `limit` | number | No | Most entries to return, 200 by default. A listing cut short comes back with truncated set. |
+
+#### Output
+
+| Parameter | Type | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
+| `path` | string | The folder that was listed. |
+| `entries` | array | What the folder holds. Each entry has kind "folder" or "file", a name, and its depth below the listed folder. A folder carries its own canonical path; a file carries its id, size, type, and the canonical path of the folder holding it. |
+| `truncated` | boolean | True when the limit cut the listing short, so more entries exist. |
+
+### Create File Folder
+
+Create a workspace file folder at a path. Parent folders are created as needed. Fails if a folder already exists at the path.
+
+#### Input
+
+| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `path` | string | Yes | Path of the folder to create. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
+
+#### Output
+
+| Parameter | Type | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
+| `folder` | object | The created folder, with its name, canonical path, parent path, and timestamps. |
+
+### Move File Folder
+
+Move or rename a workspace file folder by giving its full destination path. Everything inside the folder moves with it.
+
+#### Input
+
+| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `path` | string | Yes | Folder to move. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
+| `destinationPath` | string | Yes | Full path the folder should have afterwards. Renaming is a destination whose parent is unchanged. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
+
+#### Output
+
+| Parameter | Type | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
+| `folder` | object | The folder at its new path. |
+| `previousPath` | string | The path the folder had before the move. |
+
+### Delete File Folder
+
+Delete a workspace file folder. It moves to Recently deleted and can be brought back with Restore File Folder. Deleting a folder that still has contents requires the recursive option.
+
+#### Input
+
+| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `path` | string | Yes | Folder to delete. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
+| `recursive` | boolean | No | Also delete the folder’s nested folders and files. Without it, deleting a non-empty folder fails. |
+
+#### Output
+
+| Parameter | Type | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
+| `path` | string | The folder that was deleted. |
+| `deleted` | boolean | Always true when the operation succeeded. |
+| `deletedItems` | object | Counts of the folders and files deleted alongside it. |
+
+### Restore File Folder
+
+Restore a deleted workspace file folder and its contents from Recently deleted. Addressed by folder ID, because a deleted folder has no live path.
+
+#### Input
+
+| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `folderId` | string | Yes | ID of the deleted folder to restore. |
+
+#### Output
+
+| Parameter | Type | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
+| `folder` | object | The restored folder at its live path. |
+| `restoredItems` | object | Counts of the folders and files restored alongside it. |
+
+### Move File
+
+Move an existing workspace file into a folder. Moves the file itself; use Move File Folder to relocate a whole folder.
+
+#### Input
+
+| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `fileId` | string | Yes | Canonical workspace file ID of the file to move. |
+| `folderPath` | string | No | Destination folder. Omit to move the file to the workspace root. Canonical folder path, percent-encoded, e.g. "/Reports/Q3%20Results". The workspace root is "/". |
+
+#### Output
+
+| Parameter | Type | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
+| `fileId` | string | The file that was moved. |
+| `folderPath` | string | The folder the file now lives in. |
+
 

apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/w/[workflowId]/components/panel/components/editor/components/sub-block/components/file-upload/file-upload.tsx

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import { isApiClientError } from '@/lib/api/client/errors'
 import { requestJson } from '@/lib/api/client/request'
 import { fileDeleteContract } from '@/lib/api/contracts/storage-transfer'
 import { getExtensionFromMimeType } from '@/lib/uploads/utils/file-utils'
+import { parseWorkspaceFileFolderDisplayPath } from '@/lib/workspace-files/folder-display-path'
+import { isFileInFolderScope } from '@/lib/workspace-files/folder-path-selection'
 import { formatDisplayText } from '@/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/w/[workflowId]/components/panel/components/editor/components/sub-block/components/formatted-text'
 import { getWorkflowSearchLabelHighlight } from '@/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/w/[workflowId]/components/panel/components/editor/components/sub-block/components/workflow-search-highlight'
 import { useSubBlockValue } from '@/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/w/[workflowId]/components/panel/components/editor/components/sub-block/hooks/use-sub-block-value'
@@ -45,6 +47,11 @@ interface FileUploadProps {
   isPreview?: boolean
   previewValue?: any | null
   disabled?: boolean
+  /**
+   * A sibling folder field that narrows what this picker offers, and the switch
+   * saying whether that scope descends. See `SubBlockConfig.folderScope`.
+   */
+  folderScope?: { fieldId: string; recursiveFieldId?: string }
   /**
    * Controlled value. When `onValueChange` is provided the component reads from
    * this prop and writes through `onValueChange` instead of the subblock store,
@@ -55,12 +62,56 @@ interface FileUploadProps {
   onValueChange?: (value: UploadedFile | UploadedFile[] | null) => void
 }
 
+/**
+ * Label for a workspace file, prefixed with its folder so two files sharing a
+ * name are distinguishable.
+ *
+ * The stored folder path escapes a slash inside a folder name, so it is decoded
+ * into segments rather than split — otherwise a folder named `Q3/Q4` reads as
+ * two levels.
+ */
+function workspaceFileOptionLabel(file: { name: string; folderPath?: string | null }): string {
+  if (!file.folderPath) return file.name
+  try {
+    return `${parseWorkspaceFileFolderDisplayPath(file.folderPath).join(' / ')} / ${file.name}`
+  } catch {
+    return file.name
+  }
+}
+
+/** Groups files by folder, then by name, so the list reads folder by folder. */
+function byFolderThenName(
+  a: { name: string; folderPath?: string | null },
+  b: { name: string; folderPath?: string | null }
+): number {
+  const folderOrder = (a.folderPath ?? '').localeCompare(b.folderPath ?? '')
+  return folderOrder !== 0 ? folderOrder : a.name.localeCompare(b.name)
+}
+
 export interface UploadedFile {
   name: string
   path: string
   key?: string
   size: number
   type: string
+  /**
+   * Canonical workspace file id, present when the file was chosen from the
+   * workspace rather than uploaded in place.
+   *
+   * Carrying it is what makes a chosen file resolvable to exactly one row. A
+   * name alone is ambiguous the moment the same one exists in two folders, and
+   * the reference resolver then falls back to the oldest match anywhere in the
+   * workspace — so dropping the id here turned a precise choice into a guess.
+   *
+   * Optional, because an upload has no workspace id until it lands.
+   */
+  id?: string
+  /**
+   * Folder of a chosen workspace file, as the stored backslash-escaped display
+   * path (`a\/b` is one folder named `a/b`). Decode it with
+   * `parseWorkspaceFileFolderDisplayPath` — never by splitting on `/`.
+   */
+  folderPath?: string
 }
 
 interface SingleFileSelectorProps {
@@ -180,6 +231,7 @@ export function FileUpload({
   isPreview = false,
   previewValue,
   disabled = false,
+  folderScope,
   value: controlledValue,
   onValueChange,
 }: FileUploadProps) {
@@ -274,7 +326,40 @@ export function FileUpload({
     })
   }
 
-  const availableWorkspaceFiles = workspaceFiles.filter((workspaceFile) => {
+  /*
+   * A sibling folder field narrows what this picker offers. Choosing a folder
+   * means the run only touches that folder, so listing files from anywhere else
+   * would let a selection be built that the operation then ignores — the picker
+   * has to describe the same set the run will read.
+   *
+   * Falling back to this control's own id keeps the hook call unconditional for
+   * a picker with no folder scope; its own value is never a folder path, so the
+   * scope reads as absent.
+   */
+  const [folderScopeValue] = useSubBlockValue<unknown>(blockId, folderScope?.fieldId ?? subBlockId)
+  const [folderScopeRecursive] = useSubBlockValue<unknown>(
+    blockId,
+    folderScope?.recursiveFieldId ?? subBlockId
+  )
+  const folderScopePath =
+    folderScope && typeof folderScopeValue === 'string' ? folderScopeValue.trim() : ''
+  const folderScopeIncludesSubfolders =
+    !folderScope?.recursiveFieldId ||
+    folderScopeRecursive === undefined ||
+    folderScopeRecursive === null ||
+    folderScopeRecursive === '' ||
+    folderScopeRecursive === true ||
+    folderScopeRecursive === 'true'
+
+  const scopedWorkspaceFiles = folderScopePath
+    ? workspaceFiles.filter((workspaceFile) =>
+        isFileInFolderScope(workspaceFile.folderPath, folderScopePath, {
+          includeSubfolders: folderScopeIncludesSubfolders,
+        })
+      )
+    : workspaceFiles
+
+  const availableWorkspaceFiles = scopedWorkspaceFiles.filter((workspaceFile) => {
     const existingFiles = Array.isArray(value) ? value : value ? [value] : []
 
     const isAlreadySelected = existingFiles.some(
@@ -486,6 +571,8 @@ export function FileUpload({
       key: selectedFile.key,
       size: selectedFile.size,
       type: selectedFile.type,
+      id: selectedFile.id,
+      folderPath: selectedFile.folderPath ?? undefined,
     }
 
     if (multiple) {
@@ -620,11 +707,11 @@ export function FileUpload({
   const comboboxOptions = useMemo(
     () => [
       { label: 'Upload New File', value: '__upload_new__', disabled: cloudUploadBlocked },
-      ...availableWorkspaceFiles.map((file) => {
+      ...[...availableWorkspaceFiles].sort(byFolderThenName).map((file) => {
         const isAccepted =
           !acceptedTypes || acceptedTypes === '*' || isFileTypeAccepted(file.type, acceptedTypes)
         return {
-          label: file.name,
+          label: workspaceFileOptionLabel(file),
           value: file.id,
           // When cloud is required, local workspace files are also unpublishable.
           disabled: !isAccepted || cloudUploadBlocked,
@@ -638,17 +725,17 @@ export function FileUpload({
   const singleFileOptions = useMemo(
     () => [
       { label: 'Upload New File', value: '__upload_new__', disabled: cloudUploadBlocked },
-      ...workspaceFiles.map((file) => {
+      ...[...scopedWorkspaceFiles].sort(byFolderThenName).map((file) => {
         const isAccepted =
           !acceptedTypes || acceptedTypes === '*' || isFileTypeAccepted(file.type, acceptedTypes)
         return {
-          label: file.name,
+          label: workspaceFileOptionLabel(file),
           value: file.id,
           disabled: !isAccepted || cloudUploadBlocked,
         }
       }),
     ],
-    [workspaceFiles, acceptedTypes, cloudUploadBlocked]
+    [scopedWorkspaceFiles, acceptedTypes, cloudUploadBlocked]
   )
 
   // Find the selected file's workspace ID for highlighting in single file mode

apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/w/[workflowId]/components/panel/components/editor/components/sub-block/components/index.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export { ResponseFormat } from './response'
 export { ScheduleInfo } from './schedule-info'
 export { SelectorInput, type SelectorOverrides } from './selector-input'
 export { ShortInput } from './short-input'
+export { SimFolderTreeSelector } from './sim-folder-tree-selector/sim-folder-tree-selector'
 export { SkillInput } from './skill-input'
 export { SliderInput } from './slider-input'
 export { SortBuilder } from './sort-builder'

apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/w/[workflowId]/components/panel/components/editor/components/sub-block/components/sim-folder-tree-selector/selection.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/**
+ * Reads a stored folder value into a canonical percent-encoded path.
+ *
+ * The picker stores a plain string, but the manual half of the pair is a text
+ * field, so a reference like `<block.folderPath>` resolves to a string before it
+ * gets here. A JSON array is tolerated because an earlier revision of this
+ * control stored one, and reading only its first entry is closer to the intent
+ * than discarding the value.
+ */
+export function readFolderPath(value: unknown): string {
+  if (typeof value === 'string') {
+    const trimmed = value.trim()
+    if (!trimmed) return ''
+    if (trimmed.startsWith('[')) {
+      try {
+        return readFolderPath(JSON.parse(trimmed))
+      } catch {
+        return trimmed
+      }
+    }
+    return trimmed
+  }
+  if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+    const first = value.find((entry) => typeof entry === 'string' && entry.length > 0)
+    return typeof first === 'string' ? first : ''
+  }
+  return ''
+}