Testing subagents from the Cursor Nightly build. I tried building a search agent based on Grok Code Fast. The primary agent was GPT-5.2 XHigh. Conclusion: GPT-5.2 XHigh fills context more efficiently when performing the search itself than when reading context based on instructions from others. Howe…

One thread = one issue tends to work best for our team, but if you want to publish a compilation of feedback/reflections linking to those threads you’re welcome to!

[image] Subagents generate empty terminals Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug If subagent launches a terminal, it can’t be viewed while it’s running. However, after its completion, a record of its existence app…

[image] Checkpoints before each subagent call Feature Requests Feature request for product/service Chat Describe the request It would be convenient to have checkpoints before each Subagent invocation. This way, if the Agent is performing a long task using mul…

It was great 2.5 hours of work! [2026-01-15_15-04-11] [2026-01-15_14-59-41] [2026-01-15_15-35-45] Senior AI (Main Agent) - GPT-5.2 XHigh Senior SWE - GPT-5.2 XHigh Middle SWE - Codex 5.2 XHigh Middle Coder - Gemini 3 Flash Junior Coder - Grok Code Fast Verifier - Gemini 3 Flash ▶ Main Agent re…

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[image] Subagents do not receive User Rules Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Subagents pick up AGENTS.md but don’t receive User Rules Steps to Reproduce Prompt Agent with: Call [subagent_name] with the prom…

[image] YAML option to broadcast to the Agent the Subagent's tool calls Feature Requests Feature request for product/service Chat Describe the request I think in some scenarios it would be useful if the main Agent received not only the Subagent’s response but …

Interesting, nice of you keeping this thread updated with links to your other comments, makes it easy for me to consider whether to or not to switch to nightly. Thank you. It seems I am better waiting for subagents reach stable channel.

[image] Agent ignores skill Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I experiment in Nightly with a skill below and Agent behaves as usual, rather than following the instructions from the Skill: --- name: Techlead d…

To be honest, I’m already absolutely delighted. I use Rust, have a rigorous local CI system, and a well-developed task list. During the first test, I simply threw in a fragment of the task list, and the tasks that didn’t require manual intervention were completed with just one error, which the agen…

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