Agent review not using correct main branch

Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Somewhere else…

Describe the Bug

I have a branch off dev, not master, yet agent review is doing it against master for some reason.

Steps to Reproduce

be on dev, then create a branch, edit code, commit all. Then do Agent Review which will check current branch against master.

Expected Behavior

should compare against branch you branched from.

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.32
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: ef979b1b43d85eee2a274c25fd62d5502006e420
Date: 2025-11-25T05:00:12.749Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-88-generic

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Hey, thanks for the report. You’re right, Agent Review currently compares changes against the main/master branch instead of detecting the actual base branch you branched from.

This is a known limitation that other users have already reported: Allow Agent Review to select branch

There are also related feature requests:

The team is aware of this issue. For now, Agent Review will keep comparing changes against main/master. If this is blocking your workflow, you can describe your use case in one of the feature request threads above to help increase its priority.