Feature request for product/service Cursor IDE Describe the request Cursor 2.4 reading .env files. After the upgrade my .env were not ignored anymore. I think this is unnacceptable and already happened a lot of times before, in other versions. For all projects that I was writing the .env was acce…

How Models able to read you .env? its tough bash or from tool caling?

yeah im just noticed, usually by default cursor chat or agent cant see it unless it used terminal tools like bash grep and such, but i think you can blocked it by putting .env in the .cursorignore.

Thats what I did. But i think that makes sense to block it by default

Cursor is reading .env

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MaxTee (Max Tee) January 30, 2026, 10:07am 9

same bug reported here: Upgrade to 2.4.21 removes global (default) cursorignore

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Cursor is reading .env

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