"reference" context is broken if used from a file that was outside the workspace and got closed

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

Open a workspace. Open a file from outside workspace. Copy some text from the file and paste into the Cursor chat — Cursor pastes it as this annoying “reference”. Close the file, type something into the Chat, send — the chat refuses, no error message.

Basically the “reference” context (whatever the official name is) is broken if used from files outside the workspace.

Steps to Reproduce

Open a workspace. Open a file from outside workspace. Copy some text from the file and paste into the Cursor chat — Cursor pastes it as this annoying “reference”. Close the file, type something into the Chat, send — the chat refuses, no error message.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.3.3
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e589175333a2d938c3d944f9bf0993155e655e70
Date: 2025-07-26T19:15:16.148Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0

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This is annoying to me too sometimes. What I do is usually Cmd+Shift+V so that it just pastes the text with no reference. Or if I really need the reference then I keep that file open.

hope this helps!

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hi @twardoch and thank you for the detailed bug report.

I have filed the issue with our dev team.

In the meantime, like @sanjeed5 mentioned paste with CMD-SHIFT-V to avoid the issue.

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