Trying to use indexing on a workspace with multiple folders, but it only indexes the codebase in the first folder and skips all the other folders in the workspace. Is this a known issue or a lacking feature? If not, what are the best steps to debug and resolve? Deleting and resyncing index hasn’t h…

Have there been any updates on this?

Same, this looks like an oversight that should be corrected. Makes multiple folders far less useful, also very confusing when the LLM can never follow code across the folders (very unexpected behavvior)

This also means that @Commit and @PR only relates to the first folder and thus can’t be used for changes in other folders/repos.

Agreed, would love to see this implemented. We have 3 massive repos with multiple projects each. I need to load one project from each repo into my workspace. From a VS Code functionality perspective, it works great, but the composer AI features fail to see the other open projects. Loading all 3 re…

I’ve been patiently waiting for updates on this issue (almost a year!). Unfortunately, it seems the wind (if you’ll pardon the pun) is picking up. We’ve only heard from a community moderator, but no official follow-up from the development team itself. We are eager for a solution or at least an offic…

Hey @stevenp ! Any update on this? :slight_smile:

It would be so cool if external project folders could be indexed, similar to @codebase. Or is there an equivalent to add @docs that are indexed like @codebase is?

Any update on this? this is really importanttt :grimacing:

Not yet, here’s the answer: [image] Apply Changes - Wrong File Bug Reports Workspace support is not yet available in Cursor, as our codebase indexing relies heavily on everything being in the same folder, but I’m hoping we can add workspace support in a future release so …

agreed, this is an essential MUST have feature.

Indexing only reads first folder in the workspace

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brando90 (Brando Miranda) March 26, 2025, 11:54pm 27

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Indexing only reads first folder in the workspace

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