code edits keep getting made by the agent running python code to change the text in the files which make it so I can’t actually see the changes. sometimes reminding it to use the edit tools works but sometimes it insists that the file is in .cursorignore (though I don’t have anything in .cursorignore). It’s happened with GPT 5.2 Codex and Gemini 3 Pro
Steps to Reproduce
sometimes making an agent request
Expected Behavior
it should just be using editing tools so I can seee the edits
sure thing! below is the most recent example of a python file I was asking for edits for.
in my custom instructions I say to be sure to use tools, and it took 2x mentioning in the chat before it began to edit the file using tools. I’ve confirmed my .cursorignore is empty, but sometimes (in other chats) when I ask why it’s not editing it will mention that the file is blocked in .cursorignore. I can see it checking the terminal for it’s contents and it returns empty, and when I mention that it often will eventually use tools to edit that file. It’s been python and MATLAB files
my prompt: i’d like to improve functionality of @misc/plot_electrodes.py .
1. lets add an ‘all’ plot_mode option to plot all of the contacts across all subjects. we’d have to pull csv files in a different way but take a look at preproc/getChannelLocations.m to see how to pull them from the individual subject csvs. for this, lets color-code by subject (make it a continuous colorscale that has as many steps as subjects to make it maximally differential). the dots will have to be smaller here because there will be a lot more contacts.
2. for all the plots made, lets add a few different angles. instead of saving in this folder, save in a subfolder with the same name as the file and save 3 different views (from side, from bottom, from front)
