Cloud Agent Slack messages show literal **bold** instead of Slack mrkdwn bold

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cloud Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear)

Describe the Bug

When Cursor Cloud Agent sends Slack notifications, text wrapped in asterisks for bold formatting appears literally as text in Slack, rather than rendering as bold text according to Slack’s mrkdwn format.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Have a Cursor Cloud Agent send a Slack notification with bold text using text
  2. View the message in Slack

Expected behavior:
The text should render as bold in Slack (mrkdwn format).

Actual behavior:
The literal asterisks appear in the message: text

Screenshots:
(Slack message showing literal bold instead of rendered bold text)

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a Cloud Agent task that sends a Slack notification
  2. Include bold text in the notification using text format
  3. View the message in Slack

Expected Behavior

Text wrapped in asterisks should render as bold in Slack messages using Slack’s mrkdwn format.

Operating System

Other

Version Information

Cursor Cloud Agent v1.0 (platform agnostic)

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey there!
You’re right, and it’s not something on your end. The completion notification Cursor DMs you when a web-launched Cloud Agent finishes is sending the agent’s summary through as plain Markdown, so Slack shows the raw ** instead of rendering bold. Same for markdown links and headings in that message.

Worth knowing: this is specific to that DM. Messages a Cloud Agent posts into a Slack thread, and messages it sends with the Slack tool, are converted to Slack’s formatting properly, so if you interact with the agent in a thread you’ll see it render as expected.

We’ve let the team know. No timeline to share, but I’ll post here when there’s an update.