Agent doesn't fix Linter errors

[Niko_Bellic]

It seems like in older versions of Cursor this worked. I would write “fix errors” or “linter errors” to it, and it would make corrections. Now, when I write that, it starts guessing what the error might be. I have to copy the error messages manually. Has something broken?

I want to emphasize that I’m talking about situations where I tell the agent about the errors, not automatic recognition (that doesn’t work for me because I need to rebuild the project for some errors to disappear).

In other words, when I write “fix linter errors” to it, it has stopped seeing them, whereas before it did.

[danperks]

In recent versions, we’ve made the Linter fix a more formal step in Composer, which you can enable in the settings.

We found that providing linter errors as context usually broke more than it fixed, but doing it as a standalone step once all other changes were made worked a lot better!

Give these settings a go, and see if that resolve things for you:

[Niko_Bellic]

@Niko_Bellic

that doesn’t work for me because I need to rebuild the project for some errors to disappear

As I said before, automatic iterations don’t work for me because I need to rebuild the project for some errors to disappear.

What do you mean by “as a standalone step” - how can I ask for it as a new step when the agent doesn’t see Linter errors?

[SoMaCoSF]

I was ignorant to linting in general so I went on a small path to understand how the agent does linting.

You may find thi thread I had with Composer interesting with respect to guiding it to the linting behavior you want:

Composer Lint on/off

I didnt really know what Linting was, so here is a long post on it.

Linting: How Do?

I didnt really understand what Linting was when I saw the post about on/off option for linting… I thought I’d share what I learned really wuickly via Claude, as this may be interesting to others. Basically, I had it explain and document linting in detail - then provide a method for defining the linting behavior you want from the bot. GISTS Linting is the automated process of analyzing code to identify potential programming errors, bugs, stylistic issues, and suspicious patterns. Auto-linti…

https://gist.github.com/SoMaCoSF/afec21db9a2809e2118d803c8fb6b819

[SoMaCoSF]

I think this highlights a few things Ive mentioned in thread here on this forum WRT better and much more enhanced config/behavior mgmt of Cursor.

Whereby, there would be benefit in a workspace, with a standard project structure with standard file defenitions for cursor logging, context tracking, linting rules… Basically .cusorrules on steroids that isnt just a files, but it points to a repo/directory of style_guide.rmd, development_diary.json, db_diary.rmd, etc…

And as I have been directing my agents to begin using postgres for source of truth, docs, style_guide, logging, persona directives etc.

Does the cursor team feel the need for such? How does Cursor Team do it internally (managing of their agents)

WHat multi-agent tooling can you share - either direct code, files or even best practices, pitfalls etc?

Again - I also ask that my agents have full access to my profile usage stats for all calls and resources it touches/consumes/depends/requires… may this be accomplished?