diff --git a/.changeset/wide-cities-grin.md b/.changeset/wide-cities-grin.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9bf64c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/wide-cities-grin.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@0no-co/graphqlsp': minor
+---
+
+Improves field-usage tracking, we bail when the identifier is passed into a function, this bail is intended so we don't have to traverse the whole codebase tracing down usage.
diff --git a/packages/graphqlsp/src/fieldUsage.ts b/packages/graphqlsp/src/fieldUsage.ts
index 2b5b138..f83e8b4 100644
--- a/packages/graphqlsp/src/fieldUsage.ts
+++ b/packages/graphqlsp/src/fieldUsage.ts
@@ -283,6 +283,35 @@ const crawlScope = (
         if (allFields.find(x => x.startsWith(joined + '.'))) {
           pathParts.push(foundRef.text);
         }
+
+        // When we encounter an external function where we use this identifier
+        // we'll mark all of the sub-fields as used as we consider this a bail
+        // scenario.
+        if (ts.isCallExpression(foundRef.parent)) {
+          const callExpression = foundRef.parent;
+          return callExpression.arguments.flatMap(arg => {
+            let parts = [...pathParts];
+            let reference = arg;
+
+            while (ts.isPropertyAccessExpression(reference)) {
+              const joined = [...parts, reference.name.text].join('.');
+              if (allFields.find(x => x.startsWith(joined + '.'))) {
+                parts.push(reference.name.text);
+              }
+              reference = reference.expression;
+            }
+
+            if (ts.isIdentifier(reference)) {
+              const joined = [...parts, reference.getText()].join('.');
+              if (allFields.find(x => x.startsWith(joined + '.'))) {
+                parts.push(reference.getText());
+              }
+            }
+
+            const joined = parts.join('.');
+            return allFields.filter(x => x.startsWith(joined + '.'));
+          });
+        }
       } else if (
         ts.isPropertyAccessExpression(foundRef) &&
         foundRef.name.text === 'at' &&