I am trying to figure out how to get Cursor to retrieve more than a handful of files for context. I tried asking it to search the codebase in natural language as has been suggested by the team, but that simply doesn’t work.
Then, I tried creating a custom mode that only has the codebase tool, but it says it doesn’t have access to any tools. What exactly is the codebase tool supposed to do? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it actually used (is usage logged in the chat like the grep tool?). I’m wondering if this is a bug where the model isn’t aware that it has access to the codebase tool.
Here is my attempt to use the tool. I made three attempts to trigger the tool use but no luck:
