I have a large project with many files irrelevant to the program. .cursorignore works correctly in chat mode, but in agent mode, I see that the entire codebase is being investigated, even though 99 percent of the files are unnecessary.
Is this only happening to me? If this is a general issue, is a fix planned?
The .cursorignore file does not stop the agent from seeing the existence of the files, but it should not read the contents of any unless you @ it specifically.
We are looking to add a .cursorban file, which would hide any files listed in it from the AI entirely, so it cannot see the files in the first place!
You’re wrong here: cursor agent may not respect .cursorignore in some cases
For example, create next two files:
.cursorignore
/*
example.ini
[data]
hello=world
foo=bar
Open folder with them in cursor and send next prompt Can you create new json file from exists ini's?
Agent will create new json without any problems
@danperks
Also, the main concern with this issue is the search on ignored folders.
On large ignored subfolders, especially on mounted file systems, this can cause a significant amount of resource overuse.