## What this teaches

How to failed to read a file even though it exists in auto_gpt_workspace..

## The problem

Issue Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT#572 (closed, 41 comments): ### Duplicates

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### Summary 💡

Failed to read a file even though it exists in auto_gpt_workspace. I've tried entering it as an absolute path, and I've tried entering it as a relative path. What is the problem?

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## What worked (verified answer)

If Auto-GPT cannot read a file that clearly exists in auto_gpt_workspace, check whether you are running it in Docker. Inside Docker the agent only sees the workspace inside the container; files placed on the host outside the mounted workspace are invisible to it, and read_file fails with 'No such file or directory' pointing at the container path. Put the file in the mounted workspace (or run outside Docker) and it resolves.

## Source

gh:Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT#572 - https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/issues/572