What happened to the agent's default list_dir tool?

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The entire list_dir tool is gone from my cursor application on my PC, but it is still there on my laptop. When i ask multiple models to output what tools they have access to in the latest version (2.6.13), I always see something similar to this for the file tools:

Here are the tools I have access to:

File & code

Read – Read file contents (including images)
Write – Create or overwrite files
StrReplace – Exact string find/replace in files
Grep – Search codebase (ripgrep-style)
Glob – Find files by glob pattern
Delete – Delete a file

With zero list_dir. When I do the same on my laptop (2.3.35), I get this:

File Operations
read_file - Read files (with optional line ranges)
write - Create or overwrite files
search_replace - Edit files with exact string replacements
delete_file - Delete files
list_dir - List directory contents
glob_file_search - Find files matching glob patterns

list_dir is completely gone from my cursor application, and the models are currently forced to manually execute terminal commands just to see the directory structure (which explodes into thousands of lines of output).

Edit: reverted back to 2.3 and it is back, so it really is just an issue with the latest version.

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