Context is getting worse and worse. Previously only a few were broken but now nearly all useful @ commands are broken.
Docs
Git
Past chats
Terminals
Active tabs
The commands do not give the model any meaningful context. Instead the model seems clueless and starts searching files for information that should be available through the context reference.
Steps to Reproduce
Try asking questions about various types of @ context
Expected Behavior
The model should reply as though it is highly informed about the information in the context.
Operating System
Linux
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
”What is the correct way to implement mcp server according to @FastMCP”
FastMCP is docs reference. Instead of searching pages in that doc reference, cursor searches files in the repository and completely goes off track because it doesn’t use the doc reference. This was working before.
It’s not MCP. The tag points to FastMCP docs. It should result in a semantic search through docs pages but it doesn’t do that anymore. It was working fine before. Don’t know when it broken but probably some time around 1.5.
In addition to these issues with the @ commands themselves, there are issues with the popup panel that appears when you are searching for context, either an @ command, or a file, etc. The sorting/ordering of that panel, is often very strange. The most common case, I will type a filename or directory name, and initially it will show up at teh top of the list, but by the time I hit enter, another, different file/directory has taken its place, and the wrong thing inserts into the prompt. If I delete it, and go back and try again, I can see the EXACT piece of context I want, show up at teh top of the list, for a moment, and half a second to a second later something else supplants it at the top. The timing delay there, and the oddity of the CORRECT item showing at the top, then being replaced by something else that is wrong, creates a very disconcerting experience.
Usually, the thing that supplants the correct item, is something with a LONGER NAME. I don’t know why it sorts/ranks that way, but that is very frequently wrong. It should be the opposite…the higher ranking should be the shorter-named matching items, not the longer, until you type enough to make it very clear that shorter names are not what the user is looking for. I will often look for simple directories, say @prisma/ or @schema.prisma, and they are right there the top, but by the time I hit enter, something else has replaced them, like @prisma-readme.md… Why the longer name replaces the directory I WANTED to attach, and just within a fraction of a second delay, right as I’m trying to select the item I really wanted…well, its….immensely frustrating.
Attaching files is also not ideal: Agent sees @file in the promt instead of the relative file path and wonders what the hell this is. This can sometimes be seen in his thoughts.
Any update on this issue? Seems commands are still not functioning. Would be nice to get @Docs back, and also some improvements in the context popup. Its often quite difficult to tell which piece of context you should choose as the relevant information is often truncated or cut off.
I have always had to type @D or even @Doc to get it to show. There are SEVERE limitations in the context popup in the prompt editor right now. It is in desperate need of some serious TLC, as it is rapidly becoming one of the most frustrating features of Cursor.
@condor Just checking up on the status here. Now that the terminal integration with the agent finally seems to be fixed, which had a tremendous impact on my velocity the last…well heck, its been a couple months I think… I am now starting to really feel the pain of not having all the context commands I was used to. @Docs in particular, @git often enough, I seem to have forgot how often I used past chats and active tabs (it apparently became second nature, but I’m also now realizing they don’t seem to work either.)
