Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I am reporting a bug where the IDE stops recognizing subagents and user rules, even though the files still exist on disk in the expected locations. Actual behavior Subagents Invoking a subagent with / no longer shows the ex…

Hi @fan.zhang A couple of things I noticed: 1. Your .cursor/agents/ is a symlink From your screenshot, .cursor/agents is a symbolic link pointing to another directory. Cursor may not follow symlinks when scanning for subagent definitions, which would explain why Settings shows “No Subagents Yet” …

Hi, Thanks for the detailed notes. A few follow-ups on my side: Symlink vs. real directory The agents path actually worked for me with the symlink in the past, and I’ve run into a similar “subagents not showing / not loading” situation even when .cursor/agents was a normal directory, not a syml…

Correction: I tried replacing the symlink with a real agents folder and the subagents came back, so in my case the symlink was likely the cause for the “No Subagents” issue. Sorry for the confusion in my last message.

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