I noticed that recent Cursor versions have removed the previous codebase indexing page, including indexing status, included files, and manual reindex controls. From the recent product direction, Cursor also seems to be relying more on agentic search, grep, file exploration, and subagents for reposi…

@Alphayellowcat thanks for the question, you are correct, we recently made some changes to how agents search the codebase. Over the last months, models have gotten really good at using grep / indexed search, so the older dedicated semantic search path was rapidly no longer helping in a meaningful wa…

@maximep So, the absence of codebase Indexing in the recent update is expected? Also, is the Instant Grep limited to the files set by cursorignore? Is the 250,000-file limit applicable in the newer update? [image]

+1 on this. Can you confirm: How to control which file/folder the Agent can grep now? Does it still respect .cursorignore and .gitignore? In the “Indexing & Docs” setting page, in the past I can click on “View included files” to open the “embeddable_files.txt” which lists out all the files that wi…

Hey all! Let me try to answer your questions. [image] aithal: So, the absence of codebase Indexing in the recent update is expected? Yes. Semantic/embeddings indexing is being turned down in favor of grep-based retrieval. [image] Duong Do: How to control which file/folder the Agent can …

instant grep index is built per-repo and stored locally! based on this i have some question. I’d love to understand more about how this actually works: Indexing mechanism: What kind of index is being built (inverted index, trigram index, something else)? Is it a full-text index of every file, or …

Hey @imnulhaqueruman , good questions! A lot of this is written up in detail here: Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools · Cursor On the other points: Where it lives: The binary files (not SQLite!) live In your repo’s git directory, under .git/cursor/. It’s per-repo, local only, never …

Hi Colin, [image] Colin: Where it lives: The binary files (not SQLite!) live In your repo’s git directory, under .git/cursor/. It’s per-repo, local only, never global. And since it sits inside .git, it’s never tracked or pushed. Delete the folder, and it’s gone. What if my organization uses…

Hey @Enrico_Triolo ! Instant Grep is anchored to a git commit, so in a non-git project it simply doesn’t kick in and search falls back to plain ripgrep. I wouldn’t recommend creating a git repo purely to get the index. It would only do anything if you actually committed your source into it, since t…

@Colin I have another observation. In the output/tasks list, Cursor has two available services: Cursor Grep Service and Cursor Indexing & Retrieval. If Cursor’s indexing is down, why does Indexing & Retrieval still show as active? Instead of semantic embedding-based indexing, Cursor is currently…

What do you think about Cursor removing the codebase indexing settings?

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What do you think about Cursor removing the codebase indexing settings?

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