Subagents ignore agent file instructions

“The markdown body (custom instructions) after the frontmatter is not in that agent call.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/cursor/issues/2207/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Quiet. No reports in the last two weeks, down from 2 a week at the late-September peak. A workaround is known.

Custom subagents ignore instructions from .cursor/agents files. Subagents launched with the Task tool get only the Task prompt; the markdown body after the frontmatter is missing.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: Custom subagents
Versions: 3.21.9 to 3.22.7
Platforms: macOS, Windows
How bad: Stops work: a core feature can't be used. Some reports say it used to work. Some reports say it blocks them completely.

Not quite your bug?

Subagents fall back to Auto11 people
Zombie subagents stay Working4 people

Original reports3, newest first

Sep 25, 2026Custom subagents ignore their role instructions since v3.21#172973
Sep 24, 2026Custom instructions are absent from the subagent call#172885
Sep 17, 2026Custom subagent ignores its card and claims it is the parent agent - production unusable#172038