Card #828 · Cursor (AI IDE)
Agent mode ignores system prompts and repository rules
The AI agent fails to follow specific prompt instructions and ignores mandatory repository documentation like AGENTS.md and STYLE.md. This leads to the introduction of new errors, such as mypy and ruff violations, without fixing the requested issues.
Pain score
0.15/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.32distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement1.00upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
Every response ignores specific instructions from the prompt (when the ide doesn’t crash) and introduces new errors, lies, and doesn’t fix the 2 simple behave escenarios that I asked to fix.
it gives a response that dows not follow the plan patch verify policy in AGENTS.md, viloates directly STYLE.md, introducing mypy and ruff errors, without fixing the scenarios requested to fix
Also the files .cursor/rules/project_rules.md AGENTS.md and referenced files are usually ignored.
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