**Serious Issue with `Background Agents`!**

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

Quite Simply

The Background Agents keeps turning itself on

  • proceeds to do some devious edits

Steps to Reproduce

Just turn the background agent off and wait…

  • This has been the case since the BA was introduced

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.1
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 031e7e0ff1e2eda9c1a0f5df67d44053b059c5d0
Date: 2025-07-03T06:13:13.763Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64

Additional Information

As described.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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I second this. I experimented with Background Agents and have decided not to use them for my current set of projects. However, despite how many times I go into the Cursor settings and disable them, the feature re-enables itself against my will, and tries to trigger when I just want to use the standard Agent mode.

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See also: Background Agent Won't Stay Disabled

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