Background Agents ignore shared organization pull request template

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear)

Describe the Bug

Background agents triggered by slack integration create Pull Requests with descriptions that do not adhere to our orgs shared github pull request template (which lives at the repository <org_name>/.github).

Steps to Reproduce

  • remove any local pull_request_template.md from the target repository
  • create an organization-wide pull request template
  • trigger a pull request to the target repository from a Background Agent

Expected Behavior

The pull request’s description should follow the shared organization pull_request template.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Background Agent

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Opus 4.5

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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hi @AGarrow and thank you for your post. We do not have a native support for pull request templates in Cloud Agents.

Cloud Agents support Skills (in .cursor/skills/) which are similar but more specialized packages where you can create a PR skill that instructs agent to use the template.

The other option would be to create a Rule for that purpose.