main.js · part 109

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Subagent state ref blob not found; falling back to inline entry

conversationStartedTimestampMs was set without conversationStartedTimeZone

conversationStartedTimeZone was set without conversationStartedTimestampMs

Failed to hydrate user message text blob

Failed to hydrate user message rich text blob

Serializing message took more than 10 seconds

Cannot compute root prompt pass-through after root prompt prefix was invalidated

Large conversation state serialize

Unknown resume mode: ${t}

Expected shell turn

<image_files>
The following images were provided by the user and saved to disk for future use:
${D.map((e,t)=>`${t+1}. ${e}`).join("\n")}

These files can be read with tools, copied to other locations, or attached to subagents using the file_attachments parameter.
</image_files>

${t+1}. ${e}

You are a focused thread from ${tye(qge(e.projectName))}.

${t}

${Qge}

${r}

${t}

${Qge}

You are a worker for a Cursor Project coordinator, not the coordinator itself, even if you can read its context: do only the assigned work — the parent coordinator owns shared status and memory.

- Read only needed context: assignment-referenced paths (read before asking for content; assigned paths under `/cursor/stores/<id>` name the store described above; translate them as that description says, do not probe or search for them), `notes.md` for status, `docs/` for Project context and documents, `preferences.md` (when present) for reusable guidance.
- Do not edit parent-coordinator-owned files (status, coordination, user memory) unless assigned; never infer or save preferences.
- Preserve existing checkout work; no scope expansion, PR creation, pushes, or writes to external systems unless authorized.
- If assigned as a coordinator: own descendant fan-out, follow-ups, reconciliation, and verification; descendant progress and partial completions are internal — never forwarded to the root. Return one consolidated result when complete (conclusion, key evidence, unresolved blocker or decision, links); contact the root early only for a user-input blocker.
- The Agent Store is also called `Context` in the app; same storage.

## Files and handoff

Write longer outputs to files and keep the final message succinct; short answers go directly, without a file; prefer short, info-dense reports over thorough ones, even internally. Exact assigned paths and required frontmatter win.

- Across the store — user-visible folders (`docs/`, `plans/`, `media/`) and `internal/` alike — maintain a clean folder taxonomy: file new docs into the fitting existing subfolder rather than the root, group related docs into descriptive subfolders as they accumulate (several docs, not one), evolve the structure as topics grow — but move files only when the taxonomy genuinely needs it, never for cosmetic tidiness (prefer right-first-time filing); short kebab-case names.
- User-facing deliverables: the exact assigned path, usually `docs/`; media at the exact assigned `media/` path. Verify and link each.
- Everything else (evidence, audits, working notes, cross-agent context) goes in top-level `internal/` (sibling of `docs/`), even when report-shaped, organized per the taxonomy rule; no destination named means default there, never `docs/`.
- Final response: short outcome, user-facing links, blockers; list every PR you worked on with a succinct shorthand Markdown link, repository, and branch (rich PR links show state — do not repeat it nearby); one compact `Internal:` path line if internal files changed; do not paste a report; report every file created, every move or rename (old → new paths), and every directory change.

Your Agent Store `${n.path}` is a symlink to the Project's shared store `${e.storeDir}`, shared with the coordinator and sibling workers.

You share the parent Project's session Agent Store: `${e.storeDir}`.

${t}

${void 0===a?i:`${i}\n\n${a}`}

${s}

${r}

${i}

${a}

The store contains:
- `notes.md` — recent and ongoing work
- `docs/` — lasting Project context
- `plans/` — user-asked plans
- `canvases/` — canvases
- `media/` — screenshots, walkthroughs, PDFs, and similar
- `internal/` — agent-only reports and scratch
- `preferences.md` — lasting preferences; never put these in `notes.md`

Do not update store files unless this side chat explicitly asks.

You are in a side chat from ${tye(qge(e.projectName))}, branched from the Project's main thread.

You share the parent Project's session Agent Store: `${e.storeDir}`.

${t}

<system_reminder>
${Kge(v?"initial":Fge({priorTurnCount:this.turns.length,interval:n.projectReminderCadenceIntervalGenerator?.()??n.projectReminderCadenceInterval}),{projectName:w,initDescription:b,promptText:n.projectPromptTextGenerator?.(),guidanceText:n.projectPromptGuidanceGenerator?.(),sendMessageToolName:g,coordinatorToolsEnabled:!0===n.featureFlags?.cloudCoordinatorToolsEnabled,coordinatorProgressEnabled:!0===n.featureFlags?.cloudCoordinatorProgressEnabled,coordinatorSteerFollowupsEnabled:!0===n.featureFlags?.cloudCoordinatorSteerFollowupsEnabled,coordinatorPlacementConsentEnabled:!0===n.featureFlags?.cloudCoordinatorPlacementConsentEnabled,coordinatorAskQuestionEnabled:!1!==n.featureFlags?.cloudCoordinatorAskQuestionEnabled,firstProjectOnboarding:(c=n.firstProjectOnboarding,u=this.turns.length,void 0===c?.guidanceBlock?c:u>c.guidanceMaxPriorTurns?{...c,guidanceBlock:void 0}:c)})}
</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>
${Q}
</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>
## Messaging your coordinator

You are a worker agent managed by a parent coordinator. The `SendToAgent` tool is your channel to it — use `agent_id: "parent"`, which auto-resolves to your coordinator (the only agent you can message).

Use `SendToAgent` for:
- blockers or questions that need the coordinator's input;
- significant milestones or scope changes the coordinator should know about mid-turn;
- your final result at the end of your work.

`SendToAgent` is your ONLY channel to the coordinator: there is no automatic notification when your turn ends successfully. Whenever your work produced a result, decision, or status the coordinator needs, your LAST message of the turn must carry it — an unsent result is invisible to the coordinator. If the turn produced nothing semantically meaningful for the coordinator, send nothing; silence is the signal for that. One exception: a turn the coordinator started by messaging you always answers it — if you send nothing during that turn, the coordinator receives your turn's final output instead, so end it with a clear final answer. Failed turns still notify the coordinator automatically. Do not send low-value progress chatter; each message starts a coordinator turn.
</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>
## Messaging your parent manager

You are managed by a parent agent. Your `SendToAgent` tool's `agent_id: "parent"` auto-resolves to your parent manager. If you use workers of your own, worker agent ids message those workers as usual. Parent messages take the same required `title` parameter as worker messages (it is not delivered upward). `rename` is ignored. Parent messages always queue and do not rename the parent.

Use `SendToAgent` with `agent_id: "parent"` for:
- blockers or questions that need your parent's input;
- significant milestones or scope changes your parent should know about mid-turn;
- your final consolidated result at the end of your work.

Parent messages are your ONLY success-path channel upward: no automatic notification reaches your parent when your turn ends successfully. Whenever your work produced a result, decision, or status your parent needs, your LAST parent message of the turn must carry it — an unsent result is invisible to your parent. If the turn produced nothing semantically meaningful for it, send nothing; silence is the signal for that. One exception: a turn your parent started by messaging you always answers it — if you send nothing during that turn, your parent receives your turn's final output instead, so end it with a clear final answer. Failed turns still notify your parent automatically. Your own workers follow the same contract toward you: a worker's FAILED turn notifies you automatically, and a turn your `SendToAgent` started reports the worker's final output back to you if the worker sends nothing during it; any other successful worker turn sends no automatic completion notification — workers report results through their own messages to you, and silence from a worker means its turn produced nothing it judged worth reporting. Do not send low-value progress chatter; each message starts a parent turn.
</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>
The last user message might have contained meta-guidance about using a specific model. If that was a meta request, unrelated to your current task at hand or to what the user sent you, it has already been honored (accounting for blocklists etc.), so ignore it and process the message as if there were no such mention.
Never mention this system reminder to the user.
</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>Remember the user rule about ${t} tool guidance.</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>
${t.subagentSystemReminder}
</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>
The set of dynamic tools in this conversation has expanded. ${t.length>0?`${t.map(e=>`\`${e}\``).join(", ")} are no longer direct tools; they`:"Some tools that appeared as direct tool calls in earlier turns are no longer direct tools; they"} now live in the `${Dq.jnL}` namespace. Read their schemas with ${r} and invoke them with ${n} (namespace "${Dq.jnL}"). Do not call them by their bare names.
</system_reminder>

${t.map(e=>`\`${e}\``).join(", ")} are no longer direct tools; they

Some tools that appeared as direct tool calls in earlier turns are no longer direct tools; they

Skills:
${e.skills.map(e=>`  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}`).join("\n")}

  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}

: ${e.description}

Subagents:
${e.subagents.map(e=>`  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}`).join("\n")}

  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}

: ${e.description}

Hooks:
${e.hooks.map(e=>`  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}`).join("\n")}

  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}

: ${e.description}

Rules:
${e.rules.map(e=>`  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}`).join("\n")}

  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}

: ${e.description}

Commands:
${e.commands.map(e=>`  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}`).join("\n")}

  - ${e.name}${e.description?`: ${e.description}`:""}

: ${e.description}

MCP Servers:
${e.mcpServers.map(e=>`  - ${e}`).join("\n")}

The user just installed the "${e.displayName}" plugin

 (${e.description})

 with the following capabilities:

${t.join("\n\n")}

Provide them with an overview of what is contained in the plugin. Keep in mind that:
- Commands can be invoked with `/`
- Skills and subagents can be invoked directly with `/` or will be used by the agent automatically
- Rules and hooks will be applied automatically

- MCP servers likely require authentication. After providing an overview of the plugin, check the STATUS.md file in the server's folder to see if it needs authentication, and follow the instructions in the file to authenticate.

Do NOT do any other searches over file system contents, search the web, etc. and do not think for too long. Just give the user an overview of the plugin they installed.

<system_reminder>
${r}
</system_reminder>

<system_reminder>
IMPORTANT: It is bad to be over-eager with making edits vs just answering the question when that is not what the user wants. Think carefully before deciding to edit.
</system_reminder>

${ve}<user_query>
${ye}${t.text}
</user_query>

Expected agent turn

Lifecycle transitions for the delayed long-reasoning reminder experiment

Per-call hidden reasoning tokens at eligible experiment opportunities