Background Agent Won't Stay Disabled

Describe the Bug

Every time I go to settings to turn off Background Agents, the setting turns back on whenever I restart Cursor. I want the setting to stay off.

Steps to Reproduce

  • Turn off Background Agents
  • Restart Cursor
  • See that Background Agents is enabled again

Expected Behavior

  • Background Agents setting should stay disabled

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.6
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 5b19bac7a947f54e4caa3eb7e4c5fbf832389850
Date: 2025-06-25T02:13:33.781Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.15.3-zen1-1-zen

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

I have the same problem, and it’s very reproducible.