Describe the Bug
Upon installation I had set ‘Auto-Run Mode’ to ‘Ask Every Time’. After this latest update, that was reset to ‘Use Allowlist’. My Allowlist is empty. Even in this state, I would assume that the agent would not have the ability to delete files.
The model (GPT-5-high-fast) decided to delete a file, it didn’t ask for confirmation beforehand. Hitting ‘undo all’ did not bring the file back, I had to git reset.
Steps to Reproduce
I presume some update between 1.2.4 and 1.4.3 caused a config reset. I used the auto-update mechanism within the app.
Expected Behavior
Settings should carry across updates.
Don’t delete files without asking explicit permission by default.
An empty allowlist does not mean file deletion is in the allowed list.
Deleting files without explicit permission by default is untenable. That should absolutely be an opt-in feature.
Screenshots / Screen Recordings
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.4.3
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 22.6.0
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Yes - Cursor is unusable
