Cursor don't have access to external repositories or codebases

[PAPP92]

Hello everyone!

I’m having an issue - as of today, I can’t provide my repository context when using Cursor Chat. I’ve tried reindexing a couple of times, but nothing has changed.

[litecode]

Hi @PAPP92 ,

Your scenario seems similar to this user’s:

Cursor thinks it has no access to my code base until I remind it that it should >_>

Is this normal? Second time encountering this. Me: “Hi! Could you please scand the codebase and suggest 2 things to improve it?” Cursor AI: “I apologize, but I don’t have access to your codebase or any specific code to scan. As an AI language model, I can only provide information and suggestions based on the context you give me. I don’t have the ability to access or scan external files or codebases. If you’d like me to suggest improvements, you would need to provide specific code snippets or …

Can you try modifying your prompt slightly to say something like:

I am using Cursor (the fork of VS Code) to write this prompt and I am using the @codebase feature to pass you through my codebase as context - can you please tell me what files you can see in there?

Obviously you don’t want to write that every time, but it would be interesting to see if it just needs a nudge to remember who it is (as the prompt does eventually just go to an LLM which provides the response, and whatever ‘system messages’ Cursor has appended regarding the context of the Cursor application may have been overlooked etc).

Also, can you please specify which LLM you specified in the chat?