For clarification, when I wrote the post above, I hadn’t yet gotten the memo that you have to do ctrl + enter to chat with the whole codebase.
The answer to my last question is marginally improved:
But it seems silly that after all of that, it wants me to search for the element in some suggested files, instead of Cursor searching those files to actually answer my question.
(even with the ctrl + enter, Cursor still doesn’t know git (what branch am i on?) or file structure (how many files are in this folder? )