Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Cursor’s inline markdown Preview mode does not activate for .md files inside ~/.claude, even though the same files work normally if moved to another directory. For markdown files under a path containing .claude, Cursor does no…

Hey, thanks for the detailed breakdown, your reverse engineering was spot on. This is intentional behavior, not a bug. We added an exclusion list (.cursor, .claude, .codex) so the WYSIWYG editor won’t open on top of config or rules files in those folders. Editing them as plain text is safer. Later …

Thanks for the helpful reply @deanrie ! Yeah I wasn’t sure if it was intentional, but couldn’t think of any reason preventing it from being configurable at least. Can you share reasoning for blocking WYSIWYG editor for these 3 repos? Guessing primarily security And I also only currently see a need…

Not really a security thing, more about editing fidelity. In .cursor/.claude/.codex you usually have config and rules files where the visible Markdown syntax matters: # headings, frontmatter, indentation, raw characters that get parsed by the agent or runtime. A WYSIWYG editor hides or reformats som…

Inline markdown `Preview` mode is hard-disabled for `.md` files in `.claude` directory due to bundled exclusion list

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SidSethi (Sid Sethi) April 21, 2026, 6:21am 9

Makes sense, thanks!

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Inline markdown `Preview` mode is hard-disabled for `.md` files in `.claude` directory due to bundled exclusion list

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