`alwaysApply: true` rules are being completely ignored now

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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 report on macOS 3.0.16 describing the same behavior. Our team is aware and investigating. To help scope the fix, a few things would be helpful:

  1. Request ID – Start a new Agent chat, send any message, then click the three dots (top-right of the chat) and select Copy Request ID. This lets us verify the exact prompt. How to find your Request ID

  2. Where are your rule files? In the project’s .cursor/rules/, in ~/.cursor/rules/ (user-level), or set up via Cursor Settings > Rules?

  3. How many rules do you have total, and how many have alwaysApply: true?

As a workaround, you can @-mention specific rule files in chat to force-include them in the conversation context. Not ideal with many rules, but it works until this is resolved.

@hermann-o – If you can share a request ID from your setup too, that would help us confirm whether the root cause is the same on Linux.