Cursor Background Agents in Slack - how to pass .env

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Loving the new Slack feature.

Any idea how to give the Background Agents access to .env variables?

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Hi @mwjt42 could you check your settings for global ignore files as settings are transferred to the agent.

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That makes sense for Background Agents I launch from the app, but for Slack, these are run without the need for Cursor to be installed/open.

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Its the same background agent you set up earlier on desktop from my experience :slight_smile:

Or did you try it on a project which didnt have B-Agent?

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I just added it the Slack app in the web cursor settings. I can then use Slack on any device (inc mobile) to message the Cursor agent.

“@Cursor fix the thing”, just works.

But, has no .env context as it creates a new branch on GitHub and uses the code from there

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Ok good question, will post to Cursor Team :slight_smile: @danperks