Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Very recently, perhaps over the last several days, some version of Cursor has become bugged pertaining to rules. None of my rules with alwaysApply: true are being honored at all. Specifically inquiring with Opus about this, …

Same here: Very simple rule ‘Always applied’ is not added to the prompt. When reminded to follow [rule name] agent follows. In short: Always applied semantics violation. Really annoying when the most basic stuff is not working. Version: 3.1.17 VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: fce1e9ab7844f9ea357…

Hi @RayGraham , I can reproduce this. Rules with alwaysApply: true in .mdc files are being placed in the requestable section of the prompt instead of being directly injected, which is consistent with what you and Opus observed. This is a genuine bug, not model confabulation. There’s a similar repor…

Hi @mohitjain , Great to hear that this is reproduced. Here is what you’ve asked for: RequestID: 292f78f0-54b5-4e52-bd85-c949da253e3f My rule files are in .cursor/rules, contained within each repository. I don’t have any user-level rules or any manually set up. They are all within source …

Additional data point, Linux, slightly older build than the OP. Same symptom as described: a rule file with alwaysApply: true in its front-matter is placed under agent_requestable_workspace_rules in the system prompt instead of being auto-injected. The agent confirms this when asked to quote its ow…

Excellent; looking forward to the update. Thanks.

sample request: 6b7ca5d7-6c1a-47d2-8fcc-8e56b81de368

`alwaysApply: true` rules are being completely ignored now

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Jason_Ma (Jason Ma) April 21, 2026, 7:46pm 12

Hi all!

This has now been fixed, and will be released in the upcoming 3.2 client release. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for flagging!

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`alwaysApply: true` rules are being completely ignored now

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