Cursor Indexing Issues

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Cursor indexing
• @codebase not working
• Cursor search broken

Example prompts

• “cursor indexing”
• “cursor index”
• “@codebase not working”
• “/cursor-indexing-issues”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash(cmd:*)

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Reduce Scope
2. 2Resync Index
3. 3Clear Cache (if resync fails)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Bash(cmd:*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • cursor

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • docs.cursor.com
  • cursor.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Cursor Indexing Issues loads about 2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 746 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~62

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:53

  chat to reference only that file. If a `.env` file becomes visible during testing, stop and correct the exclusion befor

• NoteRuns commands with sudoSKILL.md:215

  o "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

• NoteRuns commands with sudoSKILL.md:216

  sudo sysctl -p

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 746 words, ~1,958 tokens.

name

cursor-indexing-issues

description

Troubleshoot Cursor codebase indexing: stuck indexing, empty search, @codebase failures, and performance issues. Triggers on "cursor indexing", "cursor index", "@codebase not working", "cursor search broken", "indexing stuck".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Bash(cmd:*)

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.19.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, cursor, cursor-indexing

# .cursorignore -- exclude non-essential directories

# Build output
dist/
build/
.next/
out/
target/

# Dependencies (always exclude)
node_modules/
vendor/
.venv/
venv/

# Generated / large files
*.min.js
*.min.css
*.bundle.js
*.map
*.lock
package-lock.json
yarn.lock
pnpm-lock.yaml

# Data files
*.csv
*.sql
*.sqlite
*.parquet
*.json.gz
fixtures/

# Media
*.png
*.jpg
*.gif
*.svg
*.mp4
*.woff2

# macOS
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/Cache/
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/CachedData/

# Linux
rm -rf ~/.config/Cursor/Cache/
rm -rf ~/.config/Cursor/CachedData/

# Windows (PowerShell)
Remove-Item -Recurse "$env:APPDATA\Cursor\Cache"
Remove-Item -Recurse "$env:APPDATA\Cursor\CachedData"

# Open just the package you're working on:
cursor packages/api/

# Or use .cursorignore to exclude other packages:
# .cursorignore
packages/web/
packages/mobile/
packages/admin/
packages/deprecated-*

# Check current limit
cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

# Increase to 524288 (persists across reboots)
echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p

// settings.json
{
  "files.maxMemoryForLargeFilesMB": 4096,
  "files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/node_modules/**": true,
    "**/.git/**": true,
    "**/dist/**": true,
    "**/build/**": true
  }
}

# .cursorindexingignore
tests/fixtures/large-sample.json
docs/api-spec.yaml
e2e/recordings/

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (references) in skills/.curated/cursor-indexing-issues of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

• SKILL.md
• references/.cursorignore-configuration.md
• references/common-indexing-issues.md
• references/errors.md
• references/examples.md
• references/index-verification.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287