When using chat how to ensure all project scripts are being accessed?

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I’m fairly new to using cursor, but one aspect that has confused me is how the chat works in terms of accessing your project code.

For example I am working in Unity so I’d like cursor to be looking at all of the scripts I have written when responding to requests. But in the chat window you can add context, which in my case could be the relevant scripts. If I don’t add any context is cursor by default accessing and analysing the existing scripts in my project? Do I need to explicitly tell cursor my project folder, possibly in the project rules?

There is also codebase chat. In the settings I did the codebase indexing, but didn’t configure any files to ignore.

I have several scripts that depend on others, services, managers, etc so when I make a request to change a script I want it to also understand the other scripts in the project when making suggestions.

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Hey,

By default, Cursor will not provide any context to the AI besides the current open file, which you can see as tagged as context when tou start a new session.

To provide more context, specifically in the chat, we have two options:

  1. You can mention more files or a folder to provide them as context. Mentioning a folder will let Cursor scan the most relevant files related to your query.
  2. @codebase allows Cursor to scan your codebase and find the most relevant files related to your query. It will then automatically use them as context.