[FEATURE] Sort File Suggestions by Creation or Updated Date

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• [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)

Problem Statement

For files in my code I don't usually need to even tag the file in claude, but sometimes I want to upload a screenshot I just took. I'll use @~/Desktop/ and it will start autocompleting files there, but it will order the files by file name. That's fine if I know the file name, but screenshots regardless of what software you use to take them are probably not going to be at the top of that list. Right now I find myself going to my desktop and renaming my screenshots just so that I can go back to claude and easily have them show up in the file autocomplete.

Proposed Solution

And if I'm using @ to find a file outside my repo, I think it's probably more likely that creation or updated date is going to be the more useful sorting on that list anyway. If I know the file name itself obviously i can still start typing that and easily complete it too. Seems like it'd be nice to have a way to configure sorting on those file suggestions.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Low - Nice to have

Feature Category

File operations

Use Case Example

Example scenario:

1. I set a config for file suggestion sort order
2. claude makes changes to my code
3. In my browser, I'm testing that those code changes work in my UI
4. I take a screenshot
5. I go to claude and start using @~/dir-to-screenshot/ and receive a creation date sorted list of files to scroll through
6. My new screenshot would be the first suggestion so I just tab to it and keep writing my prompt without interruption

Additional Context

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