Cursor Hooks not detected

[vrv (Vijay)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

(I’m on Cursor 1.8 though it also happened on Cursor 1.7).

I saw the announcement of the new hooks feature and I’m eager to try it out.

Despite having the .cursor/hooks.json file in my project directory, restarting Cursor, I don’t see any ‘configured hooks’ being detected. Moreover, I don’t see an output channel for “Hooks” anywhere, leading me to believe the hooks service isn’t being started.

Am I missing a configuration setting, or is this being slowly rolled out?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create .cursor/hooks.json with something minimal like this:

{
“version”: 1,
“hooks”: {
“afterFileEdit”: [
{ “command”: “sh -lc ‘echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S) - afterFileEdit" >> .cursor/hooks.log’” }
],
“stop”: [
{ “command”: “sh -lc ‘echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S) - stop" >> .cursor/hooks.log’” }
]
}
}

2. Restart Cursor

3. Navigate to Hooks tab in Cursor settings, see no configured logs

4. Observe no “Hooks” channel in output.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.8.0-pre.11.patch.1
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 27be27a6c959a12724e76abb49ea107f782619f0
Date: 2025-10-01T16:16:43.780Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[vrv (Vijay)]

I just restarted Cursor a few hours later and now I’m seeing the service start up.

In the logs it shows
[2025-10-01T21:38:17.781Z] Project hooks disabled (experiment flag not enabled)

but user and enterprise hooks seem to be working, so that’s good enough for me!

[condor (Condor (Tee))]

Thank you @vrv kindly for your post and finding the solution by yourself. Currently the hooks are a user/team level feature. We are testing project level hooks and will share once we can release it

[Levi_Ciarrocchi]

Im still having trouble with the hooks. At Output [ Hooks ] it appears:

[2025-10-14T18:30:20.282Z] Reloading hooks configuration…
[2025-10-14T18:30:20.452Z] No enterprise hooks configuration found
[2025-10-14T18:30:21.118Z] Loaded 1 user hook(s) for steps: beforeSubmitPrompt
[2025-10-14T18:30:21.118Z] Project hooks disabled (experiment flag not enabled)
[2025-10-14T18:30:21.118Z] Cursor Hooks Service initialized successfully

I did not configure this beforeSubmitPrompt hook, and mine does not appear.

I have this at my ./cursor/hooks.json:

{

  “version”: 1,

  “hooks”: {

  “afterFileEdit”: [

    {

      “command”: “./hooks/lint-format.sh”

    }

  ]

}

But i think that it is not properly configured. What sould I do?

[Levi_Ciarrocchi]

Actually I think project hooks are not available yet. Do you have an estimate time to ship it?