Background agent: none of the secrets available in the environment

Bug Reports
1

Describe the Bug

There is no way for the background agent to access any of the secret.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a secret MY_SECRET with some text into it
  2. Start a background agent and ask to check for MY_SECRET env variable
  3. The variable is not present in the background agent environment (verified by the agent or an explicit command in the terminal)

Expected Behavior

I define a secret and I am able to use it in the background agent environment

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.1 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 031e7e0ff1e2eda9c1a0f5df67d44053b059c5d0
Date: 2025-07-03T06:08:06.355Z
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

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

2

I have precisely the same issue and the same cursor version.