Cursor runs out of context on real work

LLM apps2 posts from 2 people2d active+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)Unverified

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Cursor kept forgetting my project rules and database schemas across sessions. Here is how I plugged persistent long-term memory in 1 minute via MCP....static guidelines, but as a project evolves, maintaining a monolithic rules file becomes painful: - It consumes valuable context window tokens on every single query. - It doesn't track when decisions were changed (temporal awareness). - It doesn't support semantic retrieval of...r/cursoru/redfoxcode	r/cursoru/redfoxcode	Oct 2yesterday
The token limit does not workWhere does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug In the “Agent Window” mode, you can choose to limit tokens to 256k, but the context window will grow to 500k (in the case of grok 4.7). In the cas…Cursor ForumMaksim_Ermakov	Cursor ForumMaksim_Ermakov1 likes, 2 replies	Sep 2310 days ago

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Grok	1
GitHub	1

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2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 10 days. Mostly on Cursor Forum, r/cursor. Tools named alongside: Grok, GitHub.

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Posts that state a pain and match the "context-window" rule about Cursor. First post Sep 23, 2026, latest Oct 2, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method

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