Describe the Bug Codebase indexing continuously fails with “Handshaking failed” error when working with SSH-connected remote projects. The error persists across multiple attempts and prevents proper code indexing functionality. Since embedding and metadata are stored in the cloud, we cannot perform …

Cursor codebase indexing completely fails with unresolvable "Handshake failed" error

deanrie Split this topic July 8, 2025, 5:27pm 3

A post was merged into an existing topic: Cursor Stuck at Codebase Indexing

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