Agent CLI does not listen to attribution rules

[gregnazario (Greg)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

No matter what you do, a trailer is added to the git commits. This defeats the purpose of the cursor configuration to turn this off, and I generally don’t like them in my commits. I have accepted that cloud agents do it, but the agent CLI should behave like the IDE

Steps to Reproduce

Tell the CLI to commit something after already configuring attribution / trailers off.

In this case, I actually asked the agent to explicitly make a rule to not add the trailer and it adds it anyways.

Expected Behavior

It should not add the trailers if it’s configured to not add trailers.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

2026.04.17-787b533

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Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[Colin]

Hey @gregnazario!

Take a look over here – you may be running into the same issue.

Cursor CLI ignores attribution config settings

This is really helpful info that everything works as expected on a personal Pro account. It looks like the cause is the Enterprise plan. Enterprise has admin-managed settings that can override local user configs, including attribution settings. If your team admin enabled forced attribution in the dashboard, your local cli-config.json will be ignored by design. I’d recommend checking with your Enterprise admin. In the team dashboard settings, there should be options to manage attribution at the…

[jhlagado (John Hardy)]

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes it absolutely will make me stop using Cursor.
I will not allow a TOOL to claim authorship on my repo and undermining my copyright and license.