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GUIDE 2026-05-11

Cursor's codebase index: when to leave it alone and when to nuke and rebuild

Cursor maintains a structured index of your codebase that most AI features draw on. Here's what goes stale, how to spot it, and when to force a full rebuild.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #indexing

GUIDE 2026-04-18

Cursor's codebase indexing on a 1M-line repo: tuning .cursorignore and what to expect

Cursor's indexing scales surprisingly well, but a 1M-line repo will hit limits without tuning. Here's the configuration that makes it usable.

Owner · 6 min #cursor #large-codebases