Customize UI for rules, skills,.. do not support remote development environment

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

the new Customize UI for rules, skills,.. do not support remote development environment.

I have WSL debian environment setup,
usually I set the user rules in /home/username/.cursor/rules folder. after upgrading to the recent releases, this feature doesn’t work and when I tried to create a new rule I found it was created in the windows host in the path c:\home\username.cursor\rules\

Steps to Reproduce

setup a WSL environement
use Cursor IDE to connect to WSL and setup remote development environment
create a new user rule

Expected Behavior

rule should be created in the user home directory

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.14.27 (system setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 047548b00c1a079373d74d00183f32510a4a41e0
Date: 2026-08-04T03:29:11.183Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.291
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey @Zayen_Fradj
Thanks for the detailed report - I reproduced this on a Windows + WSL setup, so it’s on our side, not your setup. We’ve let the team know and this is an issue we’re tracking.

To keep you unblocked:

  1. Project rules in your WSL workspace (.cursor/rules/*.mdc) resolve correctly in remote windows - most reliable option right now. Rules docs
  2. For user-scope files, create/edit them directly in WSL (terminal or remote explorer) rather than through Customize. Same for skills and subagents. You can safely delete the stray C:\home\username\.cursor\rules folder on the Windows side.

I’ll post here when there’s an update.

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any updates please

Thanks