Given its generation UUID, where can I read the plain text of associated AI response locally on my computer?

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I’m on windows and I navigated to AppData\Roaming\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage\somerandomstring\state.vscdb and with a SQLite DB Browser successfully read the text prompts stored as values under key “aiSErvice.prompts” and “aiService.generations”.

The “aiService.generations” have entries:

[{“unixMs”:176923022****,“generationUUID”:“9f0d9e98-3b8f-4433-9550-******”,“type”:“composer”,“textDescription”:“[my prompt in text]”},…}

So I think the AI response to my prompt is associated with its generationUUID, but how do I find where the AI response is stored locally on my computer given this UUID?

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Hey @Anonymously,

Could you provide more details about what you’re trying to accomplish?

You likely won’t find much help here reverse engineering the state.vscdb file (which we also hope to move away from at some point).

However, you can export chat transcripts directly from Cursor!

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Thanks! That’s helpful!

However how can I directly see the chat generated outputs using the UUID of the chat outputs “9f0d9e98-3b8f-4433-9550-******”?

I am trying to have a way to easily see, select, and delete old chats.

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That Request ID is intended only for folks with access to the Cursor backend. It’s not something you can key into.

We plan to release some features fairly imminently to make chat management easier (think: “delete chats older than…”). Hopefully that will help!

Are you just doing some housekeeping? Are you facing some performance issues?

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hi colin, i need to view the ai generated ouptu for a specific prompt whose generationUUid i found in vscdb; im not exporting the directly because its missing this important cell here both in the ui and the export button, i need that exact ai generated text , where can i find it on my local(is it even saved or is the generation lost completely)