Modified rules bugs and auto select rarely works on existing files, almost never on new files in 0.48

Bug Reports
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I have noticed a few odd things - maybe these are not officially supported - but seem they could potentially be fixed. This is with 0.48 I have noticed today.

If a rule is Always, and then modified to be any other type - it will continue to be applied as an always rule, even after clearing all chat’s. Only way to resolve is to clear and reindex whole project.

Reproduce - single rule in a repo to add a comment ‘foo’ to the top of every new file.

Always - works fine.
Change to manual - this should no longer apply, but foo still gets added.

Somewhat related - Auto select rules do not get loaded, pretty much never on their own, especially when a new file is created..

Same simple rule as above - but globs: *.ts (no description and auto set to false)

‘create a ts file to do xyz’ - file is created by agent (sonnet 3.5 or 3.7) - no foo at the top.

'add a function to file a.ts` - it MIGHT occasionally add foo to the existing file.

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Thats a very good find. Hope the Cursor Team can reproduce it and adjust. I was wondering why some of my rules dont get picked up or Agent forgets on 2nd message. Will have to check if its related to my case as well.

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It could be - I expect it will get fixed, as it seems like this used to work a bit better at one point. The modified rule thing, that should be the easiest to resolve - or for now just remember to always clear the cache of the project.

Good luck :slight_smile:

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adding .cursor/rules/ in .cursorindexingignore work for me

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Oh gah good point, I forgot to do that in the new repo! Thanks @Tof :slight_smile: