diff --git a/src/core/Cline.ts b/src/core/Cline.ts
index ff462c61d0..96879e30f6 100644
--- a/src/core/Cline.ts
+++ b/src/core/Cline.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ import { HistoryItem } from "../shared/HistoryItem"
 import { ClineAskResponse, ClineCheckpointRestore } from "../shared/WebviewMessage"
 import { calculateApiCost } from "../utils/cost"
 import { fileExistsAtPath } from "../utils/fs"
+import { LLMFileAccessController } from "../services/llm-access-control/LLMFileAccessController"
 import { arePathsEqual, getReadablePath } from "../utils/path"
 import { fixModelHtmlEscaping, removeInvalidChars } from "../utils/string"
 import { AssistantMessageContent, parseAssistantMessage, ToolParamName, ToolUseName } from "./assistant-message"
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ export class Cline {
 	private chatSettings: ChatSettings
 	apiConversationHistory: Anthropic.MessageParam[] = []
 	clineMessages: ClineMessage[] = []
+	private llmAccessController: LLMFileAccessController
 	private askResponse?: ClineAskResponse
 	private askResponseText?: string
 	private askResponseImages?: string[]
@@ -123,6 +125,7 @@ export class Cline {
 		images?: string[],
 		historyItem?: HistoryItem,
 	) {
+		this.llmAccessController = new LLMFileAccessController(cwd)
 		this.providerRef = new WeakRef(provider)
 		this.api = buildApiHandler(apiConfiguration)
 		this.terminalManager = new TerminalManager()
@@ -748,6 +751,9 @@ export class Cline {
 		// if the extension process were killed, then on restart the clineMessages might not be empty, so we need to set it to [] when we create a new Cline client (otherwise webview would show stale messages from previous session)
 		this.clineMessages = []
 		this.apiConversationHistory = []
+		// Initialize the LLM access controller
+		await this.llmAccessController.initialize()
+
 		await this.providerRef.deref()?.postStateToWebview()
 
 		await this.say("text", task, images)
@@ -774,6 +780,9 @@ export class Cline {
 		// 	this.checkpointTrackerErrorMessage = "Checkpoints are only available for new tasks"
 		// }
 
+		// Initialize the LLM access controller
+		await this.llmAccessController.initialize()
+
 		const modifiedClineMessages = await this.getSavedClineMessages()
 
 		// Remove any resume messages that may have been added before
diff --git a/src/services/llm-access-control/LLMFileAccessController.ts b/src/services/llm-access-control/LLMFileAccessController.ts
index b5139c43a8..5410e8c823 100644
--- a/src/services/llm-access-control/LLMFileAccessController.ts
+++ b/src/services/llm-access-control/LLMFileAccessController.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ export class LLMFileAccessController {
 		try {
 			const ignorePath = path.join(this.cwd, ".clineignore")
 			if (await fileExistsAtPath(ignorePath)) {
+				// We need to reset ignore. Otherwise we will be adding duplicate patterns from re-reading the .clineignore
+				// Will be switching to globby in next PR
+				this.ignoreInstance = ignore()
+				this.ignoreInstance.add(LLMFileAccessController.DEFAULT_PATTERNS)
 				const content = await fs.readFile(ignorePath, "utf8")
 				const customPatterns = content
 					.split("\n")