How Auto-Run allowlist works, any documentation? I think it's not working

[tsekka]

Describe the Bug

I’ve described few safe commands to allowlist. I really don’t know if I’ve done it properly - maybe I should have used regex or some other way defined the commands. Anyways, as you can see it runs command that has nothing to do with anything in the allowlist.

Steps to Reproduce

I don’t know, check the screenshot.

Expected Behavior

I’d expect it to not run kubectl commands if I have defined allowlist and it is not there. And even if I have defined commands in allowlist incorrectly, I’d still expect it to not run kubectl command in that case.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.3.7
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 5d56108ff2401c28f239aa2a527ef424ce7719a0
Date: 2025-07-31T04:12:28.991Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-64-generic

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[condor]

hi @tsekka and thank you for your bug report.

Allowlist specifies which commands are permitted to run. (Not Regex)

In your case cd should not have been permitted unfortunately the screenshot does not show details.

Could you post a Request ID with privacy disabled so we can look into the details? Cursor – Getting a Request ID

[mr_bon_bon]

Hey @tsekka ,

just run any command that is not in allowlist, you probably have “Run everything” in the bottom left corner of the command output. Select “Follow allowlist”.

I had the same issue, thought it’s a bug, but just found this.