On: I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

[yard2010]

How can I stop Cursor from sending .env files with secrets as plain text? Nothing I tried from the docs works.

[M4v3R → yard2010]

This is a huge issue that was already raised on their forums and it's very surprising they didn't address it yet.

[0] https://forum.cursor.com/t/environment-secrets-and-code-secu...

[timrichard → M4v3R]

I have been adding .env files to .cursorignore so far.

I can see from that thread that the approach hasn’t been perfect, but it seems that the last two releases have tried to address that :

“0.46.x : .cursorignore now blocks files from being added in chat or sent up for tab completions, in addition to ignoring them from indexing.”

[mexicocitinluez → M4v3R]

lol "move fast and break stuff....like really, really break stuff. i mean, break it so bad you'll probably cause people to lose their jobs and livelihoods"