Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear) Describe the Bug Cursor cloud agents still don’t read the ~/.cursor/rules. In my project, I set up a Dockerfile for the cloud environment where I install my global cursor files into ~/.cursor. The cloud agent…

Related similar issues I found, but in none of them I see a fix or resolution: Support for ~/.cursor/rules for global .mdc rules Global cursor-rule Rules in home folder (~/.cursor/rules) are not applied

For verification, I asked a local and a cloud agent over the same repository to output what global user rules it gets injected at the start of a new chat. Locally it sees my rule files from ~/.cursor/rules, but in the cloud it does not. See the screenshots below. Local: [CleanShot 2026-06-27 at 0…

Hey @martindzejky ! Thanks for raising this. The home directory of a Cloud Agent is /home/ubuntu, while checked-out code lives at /workspace. Rule resolution currently walks upward from the workspace, so it never reaches /home/ubuntu/.cursor/rules. We explicitly search the home directory for other …

Hey @Colin . Thank you for your response. I tested your proposed solution and unfortunately it does not work. I updated my Dockerfile to symlink the root /.cursor → to my agent files at the ubuntu home /home/ubuntu/.cursor like this: RUN ln -s /home/ubuntu/.cursor /.cursor This still does not mak…

Cursor cloud agents still don't read ~/.cursor/rules

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martindzejky (Martin) June 27, 2026, 6:59am 4

Related similar issues I found, but in none of them I see a fix or resolution:

Support for ~/.cursor/rules for global .mdc rules
Global cursor-rule
Rules in home folder (~/.cursor/rules) are not applied

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Cursor cloud agents still don't read ~/.cursor/rules

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