Cloud Agents cannot find and use repository skills, commands, rules

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When attempting to followup with a cloud Agent, all repository-level skills, commands, and rules are unusable.

Steps to Reproduce

In Agents window, run a cloud agent
When following up with agent, attempt to use a top-level repository-based Skill

Expected Behavior

I would expect to be able to use Skills, Commands, and Rules that I spent the last year fine tuning for my workflow before Cursor 3 botched this all up.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.0.16
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 475871d112608994deb2e3065dfb7c6b0baa0c50
Date: 2026-04-09T05:33:51.767Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

Additional Information

This is at least the 6th or 7th critical breakage in my well-established workflow in Cursor 2, using Cursor as an IDE. Was there any consideration for quality control on Cloud agent-based workflows before forcing your user base onto the Cursor 3 Agents window??

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

Hey, thanks for the detailed report. I see the screenshot. This is a known issue where slash commands skills/commands don’t show up during follow-up chats with cloud agents in Glass UI.

We fixed a similar bug for initial cloud agent runs, thread: Skills in Cloud Agent, but the follow-up case is still broken. The team is aware. No ETA yet, but your report helps us prioritize it.

As a temporary workaround, try describing the skill you want in your follow-up message, for example, “use the fix-flaky-tests skill”, instead of using the slash menu. The backend loads skills onto the VM for each step, so the agent should still have access to them even if the UI doesn’t show them in the slash menu.

Let me know if the workaround helps.

@Colin

Same issue. frozen loading. Restarting does not work.

This issue is ONLY for the new Agents Window - Skills are not working

Version: 3.2.7 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 251fe2954fc02bde617557cee00fcc1d27a6e590
Date: 2026-04-22T23:35:05.835Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Editor Window Skills are working as intended.
Editor Window screenshot

@Colin

UPDATE:

the new “Agent Window” recognizes skills when creating a NEW cloud agent for the repo, but NOT after the agent has already been created.

New CLOUD agent in Agent Window:

Agent Window with CLOUD agent already launched with a task, so this is a follow up request where no skills are available:

Hey @Colin, not sure if you are notified when a reply comes in after the issue is marked “solved” but see below for a details bug on this issue.

thanks

Hey @shibz!

This should get fixed in 3.3, which is right around the corner.