Cursor composer agent does not use current venv in terminal commands

[rcanand (Anand Ramanathan)]

When Cursor composer agent (in a python project) is doing something in the current project, it should be using the current venv - it runs things like pip install without activating the current venv, which causes it to modify a global environment.

[ppix]

Are you telling it to use a specific venv?
It works for me. I recently asked it to create a conda environment and use that for the project and it generated and executed commands like this:

source ~/.bash_profile && conda activate torch && pip install torch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-lightning tensorboard albumentations

[Lozgemk]

This is annoying. The Python path selected in “Python: Select Interpreter” is not used.

[JonathanGetahun]

Yeah this one is hard to navigate around, I can’t run tests without being in the venv and have tried prompting cursor to create a venv within its own context

[RobertPiers]

I created a sub-stack about this with more details but my solution for linux.

Open Command Palette → Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON) and add:

For fish

"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "fish",
"terminal.integrated.profiles": {
  "fish": { "path": "/usr/bin/fish" }
}