We have instant grep and vector search in cursor, i think it would be nice to have a raw search feature without any LLM involved. It may offer great speed at low price for some use case where llm are not required.
Hi Atur, Thanks for the request. Cursor already supports raw, non-LLM exact search through the normal Search / Find in Files flow, and you can also use grep-style search from the terminal.
Cursor’s agent can also use exact grep-style search at its discretion, alongside semantic/vector search, when it needs to inspect a codebase.
I don’t believe we have plans to strip or separate the Agent’s grep capabilities from its semantic search capabilities.
That being said, you could always use a model like Composer 2 or Composer 2 fast, where you have the best of both worlds … powering fast and smart search at a low price.