Any way or setting to disable the automatic creation of file hyperlinks in Cursor's Agent Chat?

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Is there any way or setting to disable the automatic creation of file hyperlinks in Cursor’s Agent Chat?

I’ve noticed that when working with extremely large projects containing a huge number of files (500 GB+), the automatically generated hyperlinks for referenced code files, Markdown files, etc. can cause serious performance issues.

Specifically, when I open an Agent Chat conversation for the first time, Cursor appears to spawn a large number of rg.exe processes in parallel while resolving or creating these file links. This can consume nearly all available CPU resources and make the entire computer extremely unresponsive—sometimes to the point where even moving the mouse becomes difficult.

This significantly impacts the usability of Cursor for very large projects.

It would be great if there were a setting that allows users to enable or disable the automatic creation/resolution of file hyperlinks in Agent Chat, especially for large workspaces.

Happens in both IDE and Agent Window.

Steps to Reproduce

View chats with file hyperlinks in large projects.

Expected Behavior

rg.exe causes cpu usage up to 100%

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.13.10 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 4f02290ccd9304f0e6bf8ee85f6e9106f02ac1f0
Date: 2026-07-23T21:41:07.333Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey there! Thanks for the report and recording.

There’s no setting to turn off those automatic file hyperlinks in Agent Chat right now. On very large workspaces they can kick off a bunch of file searches and peg the CPU - not something you misconfigured, and this is an issue we’re tracking (including the ask for an off-switch).

For now: update off 3.13.10 to the latest stable, add your big asset/build/Unity Library dirs to search.exclude and a .cursorignore, and open the code project folder rather than a 500GB+ root if you can. Related: Prevent ripgrep from consuming all laptop resources?.

I’ll post here when there’s an update.