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A gamemode usually depends on code it does not contain. ULib and ULX are installed on the server, DarkRP is a separate gamemode, Wiremod is a Workshop addon — none of it is in your repository, so every global they define reads as undefined. Point at their source and that stops:
Or commit it, since a dependency is a property of the project rather than of your machine:
Paths are absolute, or relative to .glua.json when it is the source, otherwise to the workspace folder.

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What this gets you

Each tree is indexed the same way your own files are, so you get more than silence:
Nothing in a library is ever reported on — including when you open one of its files to read it. It is not yours to fix, and a framework you have merely installed should not fill your Problems panel. Changing the list takes effect immediately. Adding a path indexes it, and removing one drops its files, so its globals stop resolving rather than lingering until the next restart.

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Why source, rather than a bundled list

The obvious alternative is to ship a curated list of names per framework and enable it by name. That was the original plan and it is worse:
  • A hand-written list is a snapshot. It is wrong the moment a framework releases, and every entry is a claim someone has to keep true.
  • It can only ever silence names. Reading the source gives real signatures, parameter names, and every function rather than the popular ones.
  • It only covers the frameworks somebody thought to write down, whereas this works for the internal library your server has and nobody else does.
Cloning a framework you depend on is a small price for a definition set that cannot go stale.

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Getting the source

Most frameworks are a Git clone away:
If the framework only exists on the Workshop, point at the extracted copy in your server’s garrysmod/addons/.
Indexing adds to startup time in proportion to the framework’s size. ULib is around 40 files and unnoticeable; a large one is worth excluding from --root scans in CI if lint time starts to matter.

Related topics

GLua for Garry's Mod: GMod Lua IDE SupportChangelogCommitted Config Files for GLuaGLua Diagnostic Rules Reference