I upload paper.tex from ~/projects/anamnesis/. I get help from an AI, produce a revised version. It downloads to ~/Downloads/.
Every time. Every tool. For thirty years.
The browser knows where I uploaded from. The download could go back there. It doesn't.
This seems obvious once you say it. Am I missing something? Is there a technical reason this can't work, or has nobody built it?
A browser extension or desktop app could:Capture upload origin path
Store it for the session
Default downloads to that path
User overrides if needed
The conversation itself becomes provenance metadata - "this file went to Claude, here's what happened, here's what came back."
Has anyone built this? If not, why not?