Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Hi Cursor team, My Indexing & Docs tab is missing from Cursor Settings. I did not disable indexing myself, and there is no toggle for this in the web dashboard. What I observe Cursor Settings sidebar goes: … → Tab → Beta → …

Hey, thanks for the detailed breakdown. Your mechanics diagnosis is correct: the tab isn’t disappearing because of a broken install or Privacy Mode. This behavior is controlled server-side, so editing the local Statsig cache won’t stick. The client just pulls the config back in after restart, exactl…

When Cursor decided to move away from codebase indexing as a first-class product capability? Has the new search-based approach already been evaluated across several releases and on sufficiently large, complex codebases? I’m asking because persistent codebase indexing was one of the main reasons Cur…

Hi Dean, thanks for the transparency about the server-side gate. Your answer clarifies the UI mechanics, but it leaves the behavioral question open, which matters for users with compliance constraints (I raised the same issue in Indexing-tab-missing . The gate is called disable_codebase_indexing, no…

Hi, I wanted to point out that I answered this in the following forum post and wanted to encourage you to engage or comment on that forum thread if you’d like to discuss this further: [image] What do you think about Cursor removing the codebase indexing settings? Discussions …

Hi here, on 3.14.4 no any @Docspossible in chat and no any Docs in config sidebar. In same time indexing & Docstab is presented in config sidebar. I used @Docsa lot, missing it so much. ( [Screenshot 2026-07-30 at 12.22.40] [Screenshot 2026-07-30 at 12.25.40]

In Version 3.14.7, I’m also missing the Docs part of ‘Index & Docs’.

Hey @artKozynets / @Paul_Burgdorf This is expected behavior, and is being discussed over here. [image] Cursor 3.14.2 Sunsetting @Docs!?! Feedback I just received this email from lee@mail.cursor.com so I am pretty sure that is @leerob . Hi Spencer, Lee from …

Codebase Indexing settings tab hidden by disable_codebase_indexing feature gate — please re-enable

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Colin (Colin) August 17, 2026, 3:49pm 19

Hey @artKozynets / @Paul_Burgdorf

This is expected behavior, and is being discussed over here.

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Codebase Indexing settings tab hidden by disable_codebase_indexing feature gate — please re-enable

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