# Codebase does not add any files to my context **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [January 4, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288 "2024-01-04T19:08:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/1 "2024-01-04T19:08:57Z")
I try to add the Codebase but it is not adding any files to the context. I have checked the index and my project is indexed and yet any time I use @codebase it doesn’t add any files. Note that I use the OPENAI API key and I cannot use the reasoning step feature because I do not have access to GPT4-32k (as most people with API access do not have access to). I have tried many queries and it never adds any files to context. If I manually add the files the contextually accurate ansers are provided. This is the similar issue to: [How to fix? [The model gpt-3.5-turbo does not work with your current plan or api key]](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-fix-the-model-gpt-3-5-turbo-does-not-work-with-your-current-plan-or-api-key/1431) When I delete the index the code base search works fine. I suspect that this issue is related to the models for which I have access to with OpenAI as my “reasoning” function also does not work. I suspect that these modes use models I do not have access to and fail without error. Edit: Also, another datapoint is that OpenAI cut-off access to a bunch of models today. This feature was working on this OpenAI account yesterday but my work account it did not. Today it does not work on either account. ---
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/2 "2024-01-09T22:12:43Z")
Any chance that this can be looked at? I’ve seen two people with two different accounts with the same issue. I suspect that no-one usint OpenAI key can do codebase references anymore. So, it should be easy to reproduce. I can delete the index and it works, sort of, but the quality really sucks. I want to roll out cursor for our company and chat with codebase is like the key selling feature. So, it would be really nice to get this working. ---
**Author:** ![darink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/darink/32/10842_2.png) [@darink](https://forum.cursor.com/u/darink)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/3 "2024-01-10T08:51:18Z")
Same, would be super appreciated. And I don’t use my own OpenAI Api key! I did at one point, but cannot get rid of this issue for the life of me :\< ---
**Author:** ![arvid220u](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/arvid220u/32/82089_2.png) [@arvid220u](https://forum.cursor.com/u/arvid220u)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/4 "2024-01-10T16:53:37Z")
Thanks for the report! Would you be able to send screenshots/screen recordings of what happens when you use @codebase? That would help us debug. ---
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/5 "2024-01-10T17:28:34Z")
When I use indexing and request codebase I get no files in my context. Example below: Indexed: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/f/ffb2ba6fc035436a76c3d61e6544e594a623ef62.png) Output: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/b/be53092fd11302d09c59a9573e93bc9beab86b4d.png) When I delete the index and do it again, I get a file search (which isn’t as good as the index method when looking over large, complex code bases). Not indexed: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/4/4aa7e9f0699b2a23255798e93780d7f96ad2e480.png) Output ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/0/083f82cc0b6b99ad22aca36fd9824ed61f00c311.png) ---
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/6 "2024-01-10T18:01:59Z")
OK… I should note that this issue was with the main release of cursor: Version: 0.22.1 VSCode Version: 1.85.1 Commit: 20d6b2fe0f43a91764e828b77e985d1380d3ca20 Date: 2024-01-08T23:25:28.010Z Electron: 25.9.7 ElectronBuildId: undefined Chromium: 114.0.5735.289 Node.js: 18.15.0 V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.22621 When I try with the nightly release it seems it works: Version: 0.22.0-nightly VSCode Version: 1.85.1 Commit: ab96ed4313943a80cb4902b09b259e5b0fd001e9 Date: 2024-01-07T18:46:08.723Z Electron: 25.9.7 ElectronBuildId: undefined Chromium: 114.0.5735.289 Node.js: 18.15.0 V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.22621 I’m wondering when can I expect the fixed version to be released in a main release? If I’m doing a company wide release of an IDE, I really want to do that with the main release. ---
**Author:** ![arvid220u](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/arvid220u/32/82089_2.png) [@arvid220u](https://forum.cursor.com/u/arvid220u)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/7 "2024-01-10T19:10:18Z")
Hmmm, interesting… It doesn’t look like anything relevant to codebase indexing changed between those two releases. Perhaps it is a statefulness problem. ---
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/8 "2024-01-10T21:16:54Z")
@arvid220u it seems to be a WSL issue. When I run the codebase reference in WSL then it doesn’t work. However, when I run it outside WSL then it works. It worked in the nightly because I couldn’t get WSL working due to some version conflict on the VS code WSL server. So, I tried it outside WSL. When I try it outside WSL with the main version it works. ---
**Author:** ![arvid220u](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/arvid220u/32/82089_2.png) [@arvid220u](https://forum.cursor.com/u/arvid220u)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/9 "2024-01-10T21:24:07Z")
Ohhh. Thank you so much for pinning it down for us!! We will put this down as a bug report and try to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Jakob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/jakob/32/93_2.png) [@Jakob](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Jakob)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/10 "2024-01-19T15:17:32Z")
@jpoline77 Update [0.22.1-nightly](https://changelog.cursor.sh/#0221-nightly---cursor-fast-model) fixes codebase search in WSL. Does it work for you now? ---
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/11 "2024-01-19T19:00:02Z")
I can’t seem to run the nightly version and the regular version. I get an error when trying to start WSL with the nightly version: “Failed to connect to the remote extension host server (Error: Connection error: Client refused: version mismatch: renderer: 21465c04a600d8c53e5440723959c4715f7fd089 !== server: ecfbaf72d176819d122080bc0b8bcd76cc586e10)” ---
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/12 "2024-01-22T20:49:33Z")
@Jakob any hints on how to get WSL working on nightly and regular at the same time? ---
**Author:** ![jpoline77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@jpoline77](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jpoline77)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/13 "2024-01-23T18:54:06Z")
@Jakob I tried nightly: Version: 0.22.1-nightly VSCode Version: 1.85.1 Commit: 21465c04a600d8c53e5440723959c4715f7fd089 Date: 2024-01-16T07:08:02.762Z Electron: 25.9.7 ElectronBuildId: undefined Chromium: 114.0.5735.289 Node.js: 18.15.0 V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.22621 I had to uninstall cursor, run "Fix WSL script " and then I could run WSL in nightly. Even with nightly, indexing does not work still. ---
**Author:** ![jdarpinian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/jdarpinian/32/310_2.png) [@jdarpinian](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jdarpinian)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/14 "2024-04-29T20:23:20Z")
No, it still seems completely broken in WSL for me in version 0.32.8. ---
**Author:** ![humanperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@humanperson](https://forum.cursor.com/u/humanperson)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/15 "2024-07-10T06:02:03Z")
Hey all - Adding that I can’t get @codebase to work either. Here’s some things I tried, maybe something here will help debug: Let’s try w/ a completely new/blank project, and add an index.html, index.js First thing, it says the codebase is already indexed. Is that expected? ![Screen Shot 2024-07-09 at 10.29.23 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/6/6106bce54d68cb022dcde8f77cf212405ff0cf5b.jpeg) I deleted / re-synced the index ![Screen Shot 2024-07-09 at 10.30.03 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/7/7c8d5bca1261cbe0bce22063792d55df1c1e5e7e.jpeg) It references files that don’t exist. Or says there’s no code to review. ![Screen Shot 2024-07-09 at 10.50.30 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/1/14f175c0476880af3931c15c4ef5657636a9afbd.jpeg) This is the js file contents. Ostensibly we need async/await to log the message. Goal is for cursor to point this out. ![Screen Shot 2024-07-09 at 10.49.09 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/d/d3257e6932fa11f845fb27848d0348c305bfc8c7.png) Adding the file directly and it works as expected: ![Screen Shot 2024-07-09 at 11.00.38 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/f/f57a16d7d31f2fb88dea82ef992bccdbf2a61f6a.jpeg) About cursor: Version: 0.36.2 VSCode Version: 1.89.1 Commit: 9a6d781540ba2732cf26551c07629e68121c6580 Date: 2024-07-07T21:57:45.723Z (2 days ago) Electron: 28.2.8 ElectronBuildId: undefined Chromium: 120.0.6099.291 Node.js: 18.18.2 V8: 12.0.267.19-electron.0 OS: Darwin x64 20.6.0 Logs: 2024-07-09 22:26:50.654 [info] Repo client: syncing embeddings with backend: [https://repo42.cursor.sh](https://repo42.cursor.sh) 2024-07-09 22:26:50.654 [error] Error: Command failed: git config --get remote.origin.url ``` at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:422:12) at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28) at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16) at Socket. (node:internal/child_process:450:11) at Socket.emit (node:events:517:28) at Pipe. (node:net:350:12) ``` 2024-07-09 22:26:50.654 [info] Creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:26:50.654 [info] Done creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:26:50.654 [info] Doing a startup handshake. 2024-07-09 22:26:50.656 [info] Finished initializing merkle tree in 33.98751699924469 ms. 2024-07-09 22:26:50.664 [info] Doing the initial handshake with hash: 2024-07-09 22:26:50.676 [info] Handshake start 2024-07-09 22:26:50.708 [warning] Error reading high level folder description. Ignoring. Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/Users/foo/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/9825028deb274c34eed778d95bf9ccc2/anysphere.cursor-retrieval/high\_level\_folder\_description.txt’ 2024-07-09 22:26:51.469 [info] Handshake timing: 803.935909986496 2024-07-09 22:26:51.469 [info] Handshake result: 2024-07-09 22:26:51.469 [info] Starting fast remote sync. 2024-07-09 22:26:51.470 [info] Total num embeddable files: 0 2024-07-09 22:26:51.470 [info] Root hash: 2024-07-09 22:26:51.470 [info] Starting repository upload from scratch. 2024-07-09 22:26:51.471 [info] Uploading 0 files. 2024-07-09 22:26:51.726 [info] Finished indexing repository. 2024-07-09 22:26:51.726 [info] Indexing job successfully done or aborted. 2024-07-09 22:28:47.871 [info] Search by message took 22.431761026382446ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:28:47.872 [info] Search by sha took 21.743582010269165ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:29:34.587 [info] Setting indexing intent to should-index 2024-07-09 22:29:34.587 [info] Creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:29:34.587 [info] Done creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:29:34.587 [info] Doing a startup handshake. 2024-07-09 22:29:34.589 [info] Finished initializing merkle tree in 1.81660795211792 ms. 2024-07-09 22:29:34.589 [info] Doing the initial handshake with hash: 2024-07-09 22:29:34.590 [info] Handshake start 2024-07-09 22:29:34.726 [info] Handshake timing: 136.63102209568024 2024-07-09 22:29:34.726 [info] Handshake result: 2024-07-09 22:29:34.727 [info] Starting fast remote sync. 2024-07-09 22:29:34.727 [info] Total num embeddable files: 0 2024-07-09 22:29:34.729 [info] Root hash: 2024-07-09 22:29:34.729 [info] Starting repository upload from scratch. 2024-07-09 22:29:34.730 [info] Uploading 0 files. 2024-07-09 22:29:35.016 [info] Finished indexing repository. 2024-07-09 22:29:35.016 [info] Indexing job successfully done or aborted. 2024-07-09 22:29:42.127 [info] Search by message took 23.04231297969818ms for query “cod” 2024-07-09 22:29:42.128 [info] Search by sha took 22.384735941886902ms for query “cod” 2024-07-09 22:29:43.595 [info] Search by message took 22.262972950935364ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:29:43.596 [info] Search by sha took 21.56047797203064ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:29:47.843 [info] Search by message took 23.282418966293335ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:29:47.844 [info] Search by sha took 22.93535590171814ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:23.810 [info] Search by message took 22.69935691356659ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:23.811 [info] Search by sha took 22.04043996334076ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:28.037 [info] Search by message took 20.564116954803467ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:28.037 [info] Search by sha took 20.113709092140198ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:44.368 [info] Search by message took 22.377357959747314ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:44.368 [info] Search by sha took 21.613535046577454ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:47.729 [info] Search by message took 22.021772027015686ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:47.730 [info] Search by sha took 21.221837043762207ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:51.279 [info] Search by message took 22.87226903438568ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:36:51.280 [info] Search by sha took 22.593008995056152ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:37:08.312 [info] Search by message took 22.26230502128601ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:37:08.313 [info] Search by sha took 21.69258201122284ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:37:32.302 [info] Search by message took 23.501721024513245ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:37:32.303 [info] Search by sha took 23.08992600440979ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:39:35.419 [info] Creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:39:35.419 [info] Done creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:39:35.419 [info] Doing a startup handshake. 2024-07-09 22:39:35.422 [info] Finished initializing merkle tree in 2.9358479976654053 ms. 2024-07-09 22:39:35.423 [info] Doing the initial handshake with hash: 2024-07-09 22:39:35.424 [info] Handshake start 2024-07-09 22:39:35.812 [info] Handshake timing: 388.63423204421997 2024-07-09 22:39:35.813 [info] Handshake result: 2024-07-09 22:39:35.814 [info] Starting fast remote sync. 2024-07-09 22:39:35.815 [info] Total num embeddable files: 0 2024-07-09 22:39:35.815 [info] Root hash: 2024-07-09 22:39:35.815 [info] Finished indexing repository. 2024-07-09 22:39:35.815 [info] Indexing job successfully done or aborted. 2024-07-09 22:49:35.397 [info] Creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:49:35.398 [info] Done creating merkle client. 2024-07-09 22:49:35.398 [info] Doing a startup handshake. 2024-07-09 22:49:35.399 [info] Finished initializing merkle tree in 1.708285927772522 ms. 2024-07-09 22:49:35.400 [info] Doing the initial handshake with hash: 2024-07-09 22:49:35.401 [info] Handshake start 2024-07-09 22:49:35.665 [info] Search by message took 27.129860043525696ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:35.665 [info] Search by message took 22.72213900089264ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:35.666 [info] Search by sha took 25.638005018234253ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:35.667 [info] Search by sha took 23.6370609998703ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:35.783 [info] Handshake timing: 382.9510979652405 2024-07-09 22:49:35.784 [info] Handshake result: 2024-07-09 22:49:35.784 [info] Starting fast remote sync. 2024-07-09 22:49:35.784 [info] Total num embeddable files: 0 2024-07-09 22:49:35.785 [info] Root hash: 2024-07-09 22:49:35.785 [info] Finished indexing repository. 2024-07-09 22:49:35.785 [info] Indexing job successfully done or aborted. 2024-07-09 22:49:39.869 [info] Search by message took 27.28352403640747ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:39.871 [info] Search by sha took 28.21221399307251ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:39.872 [info] Search by message took 25.044069051742554ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:39.872 [info] Search by sha took 23.65324294567108ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:54.091 [info] Search by message took 25.68826699256897ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:54.093 [info] Search by message took 24.441290974617004ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:54.094 [info] Search by sha took 25.07480800151825ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:54.094 [info] Search by sha took 27.534507989883423ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:56.986 [info] Search by message took 57.68070900440216ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:56.989 [info] Search by message took 56.556471943855286ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:56.991 [info] Search by message took 50.08395707607269ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:56.991 [info] Search by sha took 61.691022992134094ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:56.994 [info] Search by sha took 58.555001974105835ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:49:56.997 [info] Search by sha took 53.68426489830017ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:50:02.414 [info] Search by message took 22.272488951683044ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:50:02.415 [info] Search by sha took 21.989943981170654ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:50:10.007 [info] Search by message took 27.086344003677368ms for query “cod” 2024-07-09 22:50:10.007 [info] Search by sha took 26.316220998764038ms for query “cod” 2024-07-09 22:50:10.214 [info] Search by message took 22.62847101688385ms for query “code” 2024-07-09 22:50:10.215 [info] Search by sha took 22.468459010124207ms for query “code” 2024-07-09 22:50:11.030 [info] Search by message took 22.73038101196289ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:50:11.031 [info] Search by sha took 22.08418297767639ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:50:20.026 [info] Search by message took 21.590874075889587ms for query “” 2024-07-09 22:50:20.026 [info] Search by sha took 20.96058201789856ms for query “” ---
**Author:** ![javiermarcon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/javiermarcon/32/6989_2.png) [@javiermarcon](https://forum.cursor.com/u/javiermarcon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/16 "2024-10-02T10:03:17Z")
Versión: 0.41.3 Confirmar: 1.91.1 Fecha: 51c8aff7cb5a89f4a0e462fbacab938bdbfaf140 Electron: 2024-09-25T17:13:50.377Z ElectronBuildId: 29.4.0 Chromium: undefined Node.js: 122.0.6261.156 V8: 20.9.0 SO: 12.2.281.27-electron.0 In my linux install, regardeles I have 100% indexed the code, no files are added to context with codebase and I always get a general solution. ---
**Author:** ![GravendeelJochem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/gravendeeljochem/32/30910_2.png) [@GravendeelJochem](https://forum.cursor.com/u/GravendeelJochem)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-does-not-add-any-files-to-my-context/2288/17 "2025-02-27T11:03:23Z")
I am still experiencing this issue. Any updates.