Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Whenever Cursor agent tries to run rails tests, it fails. It will always report back and say “no local MySQL”. This appears to be some limitation of how the agent runs commands. My local MySQL server is a docker container. If…

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue. On macOS, the sandbox blocks Unix domain sockets, which Docker uses for connections, even if the paths are added to additionalReadwritePaths. More details in a similar thread: MacOS sandbox blocking Docker socket connection As a workaround, create …

Cursor agent is unable to run terminal commands that connect to Docker containers

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Cursor agent is unable to run terminal commands that connect to Docker containers

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