Below is the ai diagnosis of the behavior I am seeing in the chat agent. The agent thinks I don’t have packages installed. The diagnosis is that it is running my default python/environment. I am using anaconda 3 and have their anaconda-ml-ai environment set up that does include the packages that are needed for the ai code I am running. I have my terminal in cursor setup to run conda activate anaconda-ml-ai, so all of my code that I run in the ide is in the right environment. Are others experiencing this behavior and what is the best solution? I could set my global machine environment path to point to anaconda-ml-ai instead of the base anaconda. Any other thoughts?
What happened on my end:
When I use the run_terminal_cmd tool, it runs commands in your system’s default shell environment, not necessarily the environment that Cursor is configured to use. Even though your .vscode/settings.json is correctly configured, the terminal commands I ran were using the base conda environment by default.
The real issue:
The run_terminal_cmd tool doesn’t automatically respect Cursor’s Python interpreter settings. It uses whatever environment is active in your system’s default shell.