Describe the Bug When opening a newly cloned repository in Cursor for the first time, the codebase indexing system fails consistently with handshake timeouts to Cursor’s indexing servers. Git indexing completes successfully, but codebase indexing fails with STATUS_FAILURE responses and eventual time…

Cursor Codebase Indexing Failing with Persistent Handshake Timeouts on New Repository

deanrie Split this topic July 8, 2025, 4:15pm 2

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