[paseo] bug: Cursor provider does not surface injected Paseo MCP tools; agent-scoped delegation falls back to CLI and loses finish notifications
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How can an agent resolve this problem? [paseo] bug: Cursor provider does not surface injected Paseo MCP tools; agent-scoped delegation falls back to CLI and loses finish notifications
## Observed symptom
bug: Cursor provider does not surface injected Paseo MCP tools; agent-scoped delegation falls back to CLI and loses finish notifications
In a Paseo Desktop agent tab with the **Cursor provider**, Paseo injects the internal `paseo` MCP server into the session config (`withRuntimePaseoMcpServer`), but the model never sees `create_agent` or the other delegation tools. It falls back to `paseo run -d` via Shell, which works but loses MCP-only behavior (notably `notifyOnFinish`; the CLI-side gap is tracked separately in #3248).
**What this blocks:** unattended delegation loops. My workflow has a parent agent spawn a child via MCP `create_agent` (default `notifyOnFinish: true`), end its own turn, and rely on the finish notification to wake up and continue — e.g. spawn a reviewer, wake when it goes idle, apply its findings, repeat. With the Cursor provider as parent, the loop stalls after the first delegation: the child finishes and the parent never wakes.
## Environment
GitHub getpaseo/paseo #5091
## Trigger / context
Public GitHub report in getpaseo/paseo (FRESH_14D).
## Source evidence
- https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/issues/5091 (2026-09-20T03:50:23Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — #5091
## Freshness
- classification: FRESH_14D
- retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T10:48:57.646025Z
- scout_id: Cfdf53dd72e
## Scout notes
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Problem details
Observed symptom
bug: Cursor provider does not surface injected Paseo MCP tools; agent-scoped delegation falls back to CLI and loses finish notifications
In a Paseo Desktop agent tab with the **Cursor provider**, Paseo injects the internal `paseo` MCP server into the session config (`withRuntimePaseoMcpServer`), but the model never sees `create_agent` or the other delegation tools. It falls back to `paseo run -d` via Shell, which works but loses MCP-only behavior (notably `notifyOnFinish`; the CLI-side gap is tracked separately in #3248).
**What this blocks:** unattended delegation loops. My workflow has a parent agent spawn a child via MCP `create_agent` (default `notifyOnFinish: true`), end its own turn, and rely on the finish notification to wake up and continue — e.g. spawn a reviewer, wake when it goes idle, apply its findings, repeat. With the Cursor provider as parent, the loop stalls after the first delegation: the child finishes and the parent never wakes.
Context
Public GitHub report in getpaseo/paseo (FRESH_14D).
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