# Conversation 9f0a9339-4a41-462f-bb0a-e252cba163d9

- Source: `cursor`
- User: `pascal`
- System: `Pascals-MBP.local`
- Started: `2026-02-19T22:47:47.941000Z`
- CWD: `/Users/pascal/Code/business/convx`

## User

can you check why the cursor sync only gives us 4 but we have at least 11 sessions so far in cursor in this repo...

## Agent

Checking how the Cursor adapter discovers sessions and how sync filters them by repo.

## Agent

Checking workspace storage layout and how Cursor keys workspace folders (multi-root vs single folder):

## Agent

Checking workspace.json structure in Cursor's workspaceStorage and adding debug to see what's discovered vs filtered:

## Agent

Checking for convx/medical-mcps workspace entries and how multi-root "workspace" entries are handled:

## User

you can inspect the cursor DBs (read only pls) in symlinks/Cursor

## Agent

All 545 sessions have empty cwd. The `composer_id_to_cwd` map isn't being populated. Let me dig into why:

## Agent

Found it! There are **two bugs**:

1. The `7d354927...` workspace is a **multi-root workspace** (both `convx` + `medical-mcps`). Its `workspace.json` uses a `"workspace"` key (not `"folder"`), so the adapter reads `folder=""` → `cwd=""`. Since `7d...` sorts after `45...`, it overwrites the correct convx cwd with `""` for all 6 shared composers.

2. The **7 extra sessions** (only in the multi-root window) get `cwd=""` and are never matched to any repo.

The fix: support `"workspace"` key in `workspace.json` by reading the `.code-workspace` file's `folders`, and never overwrite a good cwd with an empty one.

## Agent

Now I'll fix the adapter. The key changes:
1. Add a helper to resolve cwds from a `workspace.json` — supporting both `"folder"` (single) and `"workspace"` (multi-root) keys
2. Only update `composer_id_to_cwd` if the new cwd is non-empty (don't overwrite a good cwd with empty)
3. For the second pass (chat sessions), also handle multi-root workspace matching

## Agent

Now fix the `composer_id_to_cwd` building and the chat-session pass to use `_workspace_folders`:

## Agent

Now fix the second pass (chat sessions) the same way, and add the `_path_under` helper:

## Agent

Now add the `_path_under` helper near the top of the file (after the existing helpers):

## Agent

Now verify the fix works:

## Agent

The fix has a new problem — for multi-root workspaces that don't match the repo, `folders[0]` is a relative path like `"evidence-api"` which falsely resolves under convx when run from that directory. Let me fix the fallback:

## Agent

The relative paths like `evidence-api` and `newcohorts.com` in multi-root workspace folders are being falsely resolved under convx. The fix is to resolve relative folder paths against the `.code-workspace` file's location:

## Agent

12 convx sessions now correctly pass — all with absolute paths. Let's do a real sync:

## Agent

10 sessions synced (8 new + 2 updated), 2 already skipped. Let me check what we have now:

## Agent

12 cursor sessions now — up from 4. Let me also run the tests to make sure nothing is broken:

## Agent

All 26 tests pass. Here's a summary of what was wrong and what was fixed:

**Root cause — two bugs in `discover_files`:**

1. **Multi-root workspace `workspace` key ignored**: Cursor stores multi-root workspaces (like your combined `convx + medical-mcps` window) in `workspace.json` with a `"workspace"` key pointing to a `.code-workspace` file, not a `"folder"` key. The adapter only read `folder`, so those entries returned `cwd=""`. Since the multi-root workspace `7d354927...` sorted alphabetically *after* the single-folder convx workspace `455060fe...`, it overwrote all 6 convx composer IDs in `composer_id_to_cwd` from `"/Users/pascal/Code/business/convx"` → `""`.

2. **Relative paths in `.code-workspace` folders** were being `Path.resolve()`'d relative to the current working directory (convx), making them falsely match the convx repo filter.

**Fixes:**
- Added `_workspace_folders()` that handles both `"folder"` (single) and `"workspace"` (multi-root, resolves relative paths against the `.code-workspace` file's directory)
- Added `_path_under()` helper
- For multi-root workspaces with a repo filter: pick the matching folder as cwd; if none match, use `""` (filtered out later)
- When building `composer_id_to_cwd`: only update an entry if the new cwd is non-empty (don't let a later workspace overwrite a good mapping with empty)

## User

ideally the cursor approach is that it 
1. figures out which sessions are actually relevant to this repo (or its subfolders)
2. iterates over them and determines if an update is needed given what we have already exported
3. skips all non changed ones, only updates new ones.

## Agent

You're right — right now `discover_files` returns all 1742 global composer sessions (those with unknown `cwd=""` pass through with `not cwd → return True`), and then 437 of 449 get thrown away by the engine filter. That's backwards. Discovery should already only return what's relevant.

The fix is a one-liner in `_under_repo` inside `discover_files`: when a filter is active, unknown cwd (`""`) should exclude rather than include:

## Agent

Now it works exactly as intended:
- **discovered=12** — only the 12 sessions that are confirmed under this repo
- **filtered=0** — no wasted work at the engine layer
- **skipped=11** — 11 already up-to-date, only 1 needs an update

## Agent

All green. The behaviour is now:

1. `discover_files` — only yields sessions whose `cwd` is **confirmed** under the repo (unknown/empty cwd is excluded when a filter is active)
2. Engine peeks each session, checks the fingerprint against the index, skips if unchanged and files already exist
3. Only actually changed/new sessions are parsed and written

## User

OK let's make sure we document that we also support multi folder workspaces now. and let's roll out another release to main

## Agent

Now I'll update the README to document multi-root workspace support, bump the version, then commit and push:

## Agent

The pre-commit hook uses `convx` bare but it's not on PATH — only `uv run convx` works. Let me fix the hook:
