Can we make the agent aware of the current date?

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When performing searches or generating documents that depend on the current time context, the Cursor agent consistently assumes the year 2024 instead of using the actual system date (2025). This happens unless the user explicitly provides the current date or manually runs a script to fetch it.

Example:
In the screenshot below, the agent searched the web using the keyword “Cursor IDE best practices 2024”, even though the current year is 2025

Steps to Reproduce

Open a new Cursor project or chat.

Ask the agent to:

“Search web Cursor IDE .cursor folder best practices.”

or “Generate daily log for today.”

Observe that it references 2024 in the query or generated file.

Expected Behavior

The agent should automatically detect the current year (e.g., 2025) from the system or runtime environment, ensuring that generated queries and files reflect the correct date.

Actual Behavior:
Without explicit date hints, the agent defaults to 2024, producing outdated search queries, filenames, and documentation.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.54 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 5c17eb2968a37f66bc6662f48d6356a100b67be0
Date: 2025-10-21T19:07:38.476Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a limitation of the underlying AI models rather than a Cursor bug. Because models have a training data cutoff, they may default to earlier dates (like 2024) when the current date isn’t explicitly provided in context.

Workarounds:

  • Add a workspace rule in .cursorrules with the current date, for example: “Today’s date is [current date]. Always use the correct year when searching or generating time-based content.”
  • Use an MCP server to fetch the current date, for example mcp-datetime.

Let me know if these workarounds help.