Background Agent conventional commit (commit guidelines)

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

I have set up a rule to specify how I would like the commits to be structured but the rule is ignored by background agents.

Steps to Reproduce

Add a rule to .cursor/rules/commit.mdc that specifies how I want the commits written, however the commits don’t follow the conventional commits, but they do in the non-background agent.

Expected Behavior

I expect the commits to follow the guidelines I presented

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.4 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: e86fcc937643bc6385aebd982c1c66012c98cae0
Date: 2025-06-19T02:14:23.088Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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I assume the agent isn’t writing the commit messages. I think it’s a separate model that doesn’t have access to cursor rules and just generates the message based on the git diff and your git history / previous commits (kinda like the manual “Generate Commit Message” feature in source control).

Though I’ve also been having issues where cursor/rules/ files aren’t being seen by the background agent at all, so idk.