Teams Platform Documentation: Indexing Failed Status in Cursor Settings

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Documentation Indexing Failure

Issue Description

The documentation indexing system reported a failure while attempting to index the Microsoft Teams
platform documentation. The Cursor Settings interface shows "indexing failed" status.

Current Status

• Attempted to index: Microsoft Teams Platform Documentation
• Result: "indexing failed" status in Cursor Settings
• Location: Under Features > Docs section
• Timestamp: 1/30/25, 3:02 PM (as shown in settings)

Evidence

The screenshot shows:

• Microsoft Teams (updated) entry
• Status: "indexing failed"
• Other docs like Terraform OCI and Snowflake Cortex Analyst were successfully indexed
• Microsoft Teams Admin Documentation was successfully indexed at 1/30/25, 9:32 PM

Documentation Structure

Based on our ontology:

• Primary URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/
• Type: Primary documentation for Microsoft Teams platform development
• Related Resources:
  • SDK Repositories
  • Support Channels
  • Platform Documentation

Indexing Results

Successfully Indexed Content

We were able to index the main structure including:

• Main navigation and section headers
• Core documentation areas:
  • What's new section
  • Get started guides
  • Overview sections
  • Build your app fundamentals
  • Deployment guides
  • Code samples section

Not Indexed

The following major sections were not successfully indexed:

1. Guides and Resources:

   • Publish Teams apps in Microsoft Teams Store
   • Extend Teams apps across Microsoft 365
   • Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot

2. Capabilities Documentation:

   • Tabs
   • Bots
   • Message extensions
   • Apps for Teams meetings
   • Cards and task modules
   • Webhooks and connectors

3. Advanced Topics:

   • Build bot-based search message extension agent
   • Plan your app growth in Teams
   • Plan analytics for Teams apps
   • Enhanced collaboration with Live Share SDK
   • Monetize your Teams app
   • User authentication and SSO

4. Integration Guides:

   • Power Virtual Agents chatbot
   • Share-to-Teams button
   • SharePoint integration
   • Moodle integration
   • Production-ready templates
   • Shifts connectors

5. Community Resources:

   • Teams announcements
   • Developer blog
   • Microsoft Learn Blog
   • Community calls
   • Developer Community

6. Tools and SDKs Documentation:

   • Teams Toolkit extensions
   • Developer Portal
   • Microsoft Graph SDKs
   • Teams JavaScript client library
   • Bot Framework SDKs
   • Yeoman generator

This represents a significant portion of the documentation that failed to index,
particularly the more detailed technical content and integration guides.

Investigation Needed

1. What caused the indexing to stop?
2. Are there any error logs or messages beyond the "indexing failed" status?
3. What are the current system limits for documentation indexing?
4. Why did Teams Admin Documentation index successfully but platform docs failed?
5. Is this related to content structure, depth, or something else?

Environment

Cursor Settings

• Version: [Current Cursor Version]
• Documentation Indexing Settings:
  • Location: Features > Docs
  • Multiple docs successfully indexed (Terraform, Snowflake)
  • Teams Admin docs indexed successfully
  • Only platform docs showing failure

Documentation Details

• Starting URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/
• Documentation Type: Platform Documentation (as defined in doc:mainDocs)
• Indexing Scope: Full platform documentation including:
  • Bot Framework
  • Teams App Development
  • Platform APIs
  • SDKs and Tools

Related Issues

We have investigated existing issues and found some related but not identical problems:

• Assistant doesn't consistently see content of opened files with cursor context #2639 - Assistant doesn't consistently see content of opened files
• Cursor doesn't pass active window content to the assistant's context #2638 - Cursor doesn't pass active window content to the assistant's context
• feature-request, enhancement #2643 - Documentation feature request/enhancement

Search Coverage

We performed a thorough search across the following terms:

• "documentation" (4 issues found)
• "docs" (6 issues found)
• "indexing" (0 issues found)
• "large files" (0 issues found)
• "file size" (1 issue found)
• "markdown" (6 issues found)
• Additional terms searched: "readme", "wiki", "help files", "documentation search"

Proposed Labels

• documentation
• bug
• indexing
• performance

Next Steps

1. Add logging to capture exact failure point and error messages
2. Investigate current indexing system limitations
3. Add progress tracking for the indexing process
4. Compare successful Teams Admin docs indexing with failed platform docs
5. Add monitoring to track indexing success/failure rates
6. Consider ontology-aware indexing to better handle structured documentation
7. Document any system constraints or limitations discovered