Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?
Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear)
Describe the Bug
When I ask for it to read an issue, it says it can’t find it (GitHub reports 404 when you don’t have permissions to view an issue)
When I try to create an issue, I get a response like this:
gh issue create failed because the GitHub token in this environment does not have permission to open issues:
GraphQL: Resource not accessible by integration (createIssue)
So the issue was not created from here.
Why this is important:
A key workflow when using cloud agents is to ask the agent to fix a specific issue, or to ask the agent to create an issue so you can work on a problem later. As things stand now, neither of these can be achieved with Cursor when the repository is private.
A better fix would be to just let users configure the permissions themselves, since I can imagine the specific things that a user might want to let cursor do in a private repo might vary from project to project.
Steps to Reproduce
- Configure the GitHub integration
- Start a cloud agent session with a private repo
- Enter: Please create a GitHub issue titld “test” with content “test”. Or, “Please read and address GitHub issue #22”
Expected Behavior
I can ask a Cursor cloud agent to create a GitHub issue for me, or ask it to read one, even on a private repository.
Operating System
Windows 10/11
MacOS
Linux
Version Information
Its the web interface. There is no version to report.
For AI issues: which model did you use?
This is not related to the model, but if you must know, I tested Composer 2 and Composer 2.5
Does this stop you from using Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue
