Search codebase tool uses weird string

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

Since the last update, the search tool inside the chat searches using web search keywords.
Instead of searching a symbol or file name, it often writes questions like “Where are toast notifications used in the frontend components?”

Steps to Reproduce

Ask Cursor to search in the codebase.

Expected Behavior

It should search for symbols, text content or files.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.1 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 031e7e0ff1e2eda9c1a0f5df67d44053b059c5d0
Date: 2025-07-03T06:08:06.355Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 21.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hi @willalou and welcome to Cursor Forum

Could you please clarify if this causes the Agent to not work correctly?

The search may be a perfectly valid search, depending on your codebase.

There were also internal improvements which is why such queries can work well.

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Thanks for the reply @T1000.

These queries always return “No results found” as you can see in the image.

I will share with you other results when the tool fires.

1 Like
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Which model do you use?

5

Mostly Thinking Claude 4 Sonnet

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Thank you, I forwarded it to Cursor Team but likely a Request ID will be required to check what went wrong. Please post it if you encounter this issue again.