Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?
Cursor IDE
Describe the Bug
According to documentation, Cursor should have @ Symbols | Cursor Docs. Without this, the agent seems to miss files in a large folder with many small files.
Steps to Reproduce
Cursor → Settings → Agents → Context
Expected Behavior
Expected to have full folder context.
Screenshots / Screen Recordings
Operating System
MacOS
Linux
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 2.0.40
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a9b73428ca6aeb2d24623da2841a271543735560
Date: 2025-10-30T04:12:35.564Z (16 hrs ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0
For AI issues: which model did you use?
Sonnet 4.5 (Max)
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Yes - Cursor is unusable
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Thanks for flagging this, I’m checking with the team on this!
Thanks for the report!
Unfortunately, this feature has been removed in the latest version as the benefit of this feature was usually not worth the cost! The Agent has become increasingly adept at navigating your codebase, and submitting the entire contents of a folder often caused the Agent to perform worse, as its context was bloated with files that were irrelevant to the task it was trying to accomplish.
Currently, @ing a folder sends a file tree of the folder’s contents to the model, so the Agent will be aware of all files in the folder for it to then look through.
However, if you are finding that the Agent still ignores certain files, you can probably use Commands to help guide it in the right direction.
For example, you might make a command /deep which you can reference, that would act as shorthand for a prompt like Ensure you look deeply into the files inside any referenced folders, as relevant and useful code may be found in small files within the folder that are important to the task we are working on.
You can learn more about commands here:
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Thank you for the clarification!
