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Vibe Coding2026-07-16 · source-backed
Cursor's changelog added beforeSubmitPrompt, afterAgentResponse, afterAgentThought, subagentStart, and stop to .cursor/hooks.json on July 10, pitched for self-correcting cloud agent loops. Community reports since release say the hooks don't reliably fire in cloud agent VMs, and that beforeSubmitPrompt returns a modified prompt which is then silently discarded before reaching the model. Cursor acknowledged both, patch pending. The silent-strip is the one that should worry you: your guardrail appears to run, reports success, and changes nothing. That's strictly worse than no guardrail, because you built a policy on top of it.
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