Do cursor rules work differently in background agents? I am trying to run background agents but it doesn’t seem to know basic things that are in my cursor rules. For example, the main always added cursor rules explicitly states that my project uses poetry and yet it will try to run the project without poetry. Running the exact prompt outside background agents does not have this issue.
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Ya I’ve been having a similar experience. I did some testing on the background agent (just via prompting), and for me it seems like workspace rules that are set to be “Always” attached to every chat do work correctly (the agent can repeat them verbatim), but rules that are set to be “Auto attached” based on a glob pattern (e.g. *.py or subdirectory/**) aren’t actually being attached when the agent reads files of that type. This is annoying since, if anything, those types of rules are even more important for background agents.
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