A More Efficient Approach to Docs

Feature Requests
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Hi there,

I really love Cursor, and I think what you guys are doing is nothing short of inspirational. In fact, I love Cursor so much that it is the first time I experience the feeling of being literally “happy” to pay for a tool! The value is just insane..

Anyway, I want to share an idea with the team. Currently, you’re indexing docs for each individual users separately. And I wonder why you would not index the docs of popular tools/platforms that everyone uses like Stripe, Supabase, etc at global level and make them available to users to choose from.

With this workflow, user would first check if the docs they need are available in the global docs, and if not, they can always index them.

I think this approach makes a lot of sense because:

  • User will not have to wait for indexing (tough, this is not the most important benefit)

  • This workflow is less resource intensive. Check how many times you’re user are indexing the same docs…

  • There are some docs that are not structured in a cursor-friendly way. These are docs that are not hosted on subdomains. For example, Supabase uses supabase/docs instead of docs.supabase, and this means cursor indexes everything, including their blog, and other unnecessary data. With the suggested workflow, your team can choose exactly what to index, resulting in clean data.

That’s all. Just a suggestion that might help. Good luck, guys!

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this already exists. there are loads of official pre-indexed docs. just add them to your context

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@kabal1000x Cursor Docs indexing doesnt require docs to be formatted or structures. It doesnt require it to be on docs.supabase.com or similar. You add supabase.com/docs as the starting URL for docs and it will index it just fine. It wont index supabase.com/blog:slight_smile:

  • If you use the default URL, there is likely chance that others have indexed it already so you wont have to wait.
  • Cursor doesnt have to index it separately for every user, though they may choose to update the docs when another user points to the same docs.
  • There is no ‘cursor friendly way’ :slight_smile: its docs as webpages.