How do I even chat with codebase?

[havietisov]

No, like, seriously, this feature works only half the time at best. I keep trying different things (using @Codebase, and hitting "Chat with codebase" button) and many times I get nothing, just plain chat-gpt output. It's not even aware that it's supposed to have access to the codebase. My repo is indexed, so I don't see reasons on why it cannot work. It's really neat feature when it works. Many times it doesn't.

[ashraymallesh]

Cursor isn't even v1 yet! These guys are doing a brilliant job so far, give them some time to iron out the bugs haha

[havietisov]

Well, I'm a paying customer and would like some stuff to work. Retrieval is the main selling point for me, not a tab with chat-gpt.

[overage-waif-cocoon]

I'm also paying for cursor. This works literally 0% of the time for me. Here is an example:

I'm sorry for any confusion, but as an AI developed by OpenAI, I don't have the ability to access or view files on your local system or any external systems. Therefore, I can't list the functions in foo.py. However, if you provide the content of foo.py or any specific parts of it, I'd be happy to help explain them!

Incredibly unhelpful.

[truell20]

We pushed a hotfix for users who had indexing turned off by default. There was an issue with the latest couple of client updates where these folks wouldn't be able to index anything.

Otherwise, we should have a more stable indexing update out soon. Really apologize for the wait here, and happy to shoot you a refund (just ping michael@cursor.so with your billing email or last four digits of your card).

[havietisov]

@truell20 oh, it works better now. thanks for pushing a fix!

[overage-waif-cocoon]

Still broken for me:

Version: 0.10.4 VSCode Version: 1.80.1 Commit: c0db898419c36107211de244bdcf5f412c1a4920 Date: 2023-09-10T05:39:06.846Z Electron: 22.3.10 Chromium: 108.0.5359.215 Node.js: 16.17.1 V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0 OS: Darwin arm64 22.5.0

[AshwinSundar]

Same this is not working for me either. I have to explicitly give it a specific file with @file

[Lebofly]

Still broken it seems

[mennovergeer]

Still broken indeed. I commented elsewhere with detailed error logs.

[tapz]

How do I activate this? ⌘+Enter or ctrl+enter on mac only adds a new line to the code.

[antonkrasov]

@tapz was confused as well, apparently you just open chat window (⌘+L) and then (⌘+enter) to chat with codebase.

[InSuperposition]

The tutorial instructions could be clearer by listing the steps.

[iamsaurabhc]

cmd + Enter is not working guys, but there's a way around it - click @mention then Codebase

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6028c24e-fff3-4d0d-af25-2d8bb4d6a982

[stevecondylios]

The tutorial instructions could be clearer by listing the steps.

The UX should make it simple so a tutorial isn’t required. This is cursor’s flagship feature, it should “just work”.

for me what worked was:

• press command + L to start a regular chat
• Type a message (important, won’t work otherwise)
• Then press command + enter to chat with all of codebase