Remote dev for container fail to open

Hey, this is a known issue. We’ve seen it reported before in this thread with the exact same error. The extension team looked into it, but they can’t reproduce it consistently.

A couple of questions to help narrow this down:

  1. Can you share the exact Cursor version? (Help > About Cursor > Copy)
  2. Are you attaching to a local Docker container directly, or are you going through Remote SSH first?

One workaround that sometimes helps is to make sure ~/.gitconfig exists on the host machine where Docker is running:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

If that’s already set up, try checking that the HOME environment variable is set correctly:

echo $HOME

If it returns empty or something unexpected, that would explain why the path resolves to undefined.

Let me know the version details and I’ll follow up.