Extreme token usage

[Artemonim]

@nvs

it made 100+ calls to internet search

Agent can't web search properly

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Agent using web search receives a response not to what he wanted to know and what is written in his request in the UI, but as if only a user prompt is sent. Steps to Reproduce Prompt like: “Use Internet requests to update information to find out if it is outdated @TODO.md” Expected Behavior Agent receives information based on its search query Screenshots / Screen Recordings [2025-09-05_09-03-49.png] Operating System W…

@nvs

cursorignore

I’ve never opened it. I didn’t even look for it.

@nvs

3rd day , it came to conclusion that cursorignoreindex is old and we should use cursorignore only.

Due to the fact that Cursor developers have broken web_search and aren’t fixing it back, the Agent is limited by knowledge up to the date of the cognitive cutoff, as well as the current context. You can give access to the Browser tool, but it is not a search tool.

@nvs

Then, we looked at each file/folder and removed few big files. token avg usage reduced to 120 k-220k tokens.

It shouldn’t work like that…

@nvs

even Cursor AI is frustrated with Cursor

Cursor AI does not exist

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• Anyway, you didn’t provide any Request ID for the Cursor Team
• And please, share screenshot from https://cursor.com/dashboard?tab=billing or screenshot of last event list on https://cursor.com/dashboard?tab=usage?