@codebase completely vanished from the UI

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Describe the Bug

Since the new update @codebase is completely gone and the composer generates code in random .txt files in the project root even though it seems to have access to my code

Steps to Reproduce

I tried using the composer and provided it with some files as context, I also used @codebase (it worked just a few minutes ago!). Then it said "Codebase indexing failed, so I waited, restarted, did it again, and then @codebase was completely gone from the UI. Any further request led to cursor generating the code in obscure .txt files with random names at the project root.

Expected Behavior

I want to use @codebase like I did before and I want cursor to be able to access my files and make edits there (that’s the core use case of this tool).

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 0.44.0
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: e0d6a482c1e7a40f2035787bab666c4487b116d0
Date: 2024-12-18T03:44:12.836Z
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.1.0

Additional Information

Tried restarting, logging out, etc… Still doesn’t work.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

1 Like
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This was in agent mode or normal mode?

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As @shubham-monarch says, @codebase is not available in the agent mode of Composer, as it’s able to look at files and folders as and when it needs to.

Both chat and normal composer should still have codebase context options.