Cursor settings don’t list or reflect active user rules and plugins

[Haris_Grizovic]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Configured rules under ~/.cursor/rules and installed Cursor plugins are not visible or verifiable in Cursor Settings, while the agent only receives a subset of rules, so it’s unclear what is actually enforced.

Steps to Reproduce

Setup rules under your /Users/{USER}/.cursor/rules and look into Agent-Window Settings under “Rules, Skills, Subagents”

Expected Behavior

Same behavior like within Editor-Window where rules, plugins etc. show up.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.0.12
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: a80ff7dfcaa45d7750f6e30be457261379c29b00
Date: 2026-04-04T00:13:18.452Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[mohitjain (Mohit)]

Hi Haris!

Thanks for the report. This is a confirmed bug with the Glass layout (Agents Window) settings. The User tab in Settings > Rules currently only displays cloud-synced rules created through the Settings UI, while file-backed rules in ~/.cursor/rules are excluded from the view. Your rules are still being loaded and applied by the agent at runtime – they’re just not shown in the Settings UI.

Our team is aware of this and working on a fix to surface file-backed user rules in the Glass Settings UI alongside the cloud-synced ones.

In the meantime, you can verify which rules are active by asking the agent to list the rules it has access to, or by checking the Active Rules indicator in chat.

Let me know if you have any other questions!