Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor CLI Describe the Bug I’m so excited for subagents! But it looks like they aren’t working in Cursor CLI. I have no problem in the IDE. According to the docs Cursor CLI should support this: Subagents | Cursor Docs “You can use subagents in the e…

Hey, thanks for the report. You set everything up correctly, subagents should work in the CLI per the docs. It looks like the Task tool for delegating to subagents isn’t fully integrated into the CLI yet. There’s a similar bug with skills not auto-triggering in the CLI either: Skills do not auto-tr…

Hey Dean, just following up on this. I’m still stuck on getting subagents to work with the Cursor CLI - has there been any movement or a potential workaround?

I’m experiencing the same issue. Sub-agents cannot be invoked with slash commands in the Cursor CLI. My setup: Version: 2.5.17 VSCode Version: 1.105.1

Hi just to support the feature request. I encountered today the same limitation and found this bug report. From our workflows this feature gap significantly limits our ability to integrate cursor‑agent into CI/CD pipelines for structured tasks like adjusting bug and vulnerability findings with dedi…

Hi! +1 for this issue Not being able to use subagents in CLI prevents me from using them as I’d like to. I guess the docs state that CLI supports subagents because it has a /create-subagent command but this confuses everyone who reads this. Please make subagents support in CLI

Hey there! This should be working now. Please give it a try!

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Tharun_S (Tharun Adithya Srikrishnan) February 24, 2026, 6:40pm 10

Hi!

+1 for this issue. I realize I’m tracking a similar issue (Sub-Agents in Cursor-CLI - Discussions - Cursor - Community Forum) as well. A sub-agent in the CLI aligning with the experience in the chat interface would be essential!

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Subagents not working in Cursor CLI

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