Input Text File

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Reads text files from the bound directory and emits each one whole as a single String, optionally looping. Accepts any text-shaped corpus, from Markdown and JSON to CSV, SQL, and log files.

How it fits

Typical backends

Replay a prompt corpus into a local model and report each reply as JSON.

Summarise documents on a GPU-served model.

Caveats

I/O contractBytes are exposed verbatim as a String with no format validation regardless of extension, and non-UTF-8 content passes through unchanged.
CostEach file is loaded fully into memory before emission, so pointing the slot at multi-gigabyte files grows memory proportionally.
LimitationThe bound slot is a directory that is not walked recursively, and file changes mid-loop are only picked up on the next pass since there is no file watching.
Parameter interactionfps only paces emission while repeat is on; with repeat off each file is emitted as fast as the consumer pulls.
State lifetimeThe bound slot, repeat, and fps are hot-swappable, and changing the slot restarts from the new directory.

Versions

4611cd87default
jthread reader (stop+join) + skip unreadable files
5/11/2026