Elijah Lynn ElijahLynn

Cursor: Python + Ansible Extension Compatibility

Notes for fixing extension activation failures and Python environment warnings when using Ansible 26.6+, Python Environments, and ms-python.python in Cursor on macOS.

Tested on Cursor ~1.105 (VS Code 1.105 base), macOS arm64, June 2026.

Symptoms

Notification: "Extension activation failed" — root cause is usually ms-python.python

Ralph Wiggum Loop: xhigh vs low effort comparison

Testing the Claude Code agentic loop (claude -p --dangerously-skip-permissions) building a small Python CLI from scratch, with two effort levels compared.

Setup

App: Ralph Wiggum Quotes CLI — random, list, add, delete subcommands, stdlib only
Loop: while grep -q '\- \[ \]' implementation_plan.md — one task per iteration, auto-terminates
Branches: main (xhigh/default effort) vs no-thinking (--effort low)

How to format strings as code w/keyboard shortcuts in various tools:

Slack

inline - cmd + shift + c
block - cmd + shift + e
select any code block, triple click it

GitHub issues and comments - w/Refined GitHub Extension

inline - double click to highlight the string, then press ` to wrap in backticks
block - ??

Usage

Prerequisites

Node.js (v14 or higher)
GitHub CLI (gh) - Install from https://cli.github.com/
GitHub authentication - Run gh auth login to authenticate

Basic Usage

TIL: For a consistent fingerprint auth experience on Mac, for both GUI and CLI, I learned that I can add this snippet to the top of /etc/pam.d/sudo:

auth       sufficient     pam_tid.so

and now everytime I get a password prompt, I instead get a fingerprint popup modal. Saves a ton of time if you have a longer password.

	#!/bin/bash
	# Script to "kick" Sony XM6 headphones when multi-point switching gets stuck

	CARD="bluez_card.80_99_E7_DE_5F_68"

	echo "Attempting to reset Bluetooth audio for Eli Beats..."

	# 1. Toggle profile to "off" and back to "a2dp-sink"
	# This usually forces the transport to re-handshake without a full disconnect
	echo "-> Resetting profile..."

	# sets the default zone for your gcloud CLI. It means it will apply to all your future gcloud commands coming from that same terminal.
	gcloud config set compute/zone <zone>

	# default value for this specific project only.
	gcloud compute project-info add-metadata --metadata google-compute-default-zone=<zone>


	# https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/brshdg/how_to_set_correctly_default_zoneregion_via_gcloud/

	functions known_hosts_remove_line
	# Defined via `source`
	function known_hosts_remove_line
	# get total number of lines in the known_hosts file
	set total_lines (wc -l < ~/.ssh/known_hosts \| tr -d ' ')
	if test $argv[1] -gt $total_lines
	echo "Line number $argv[1] exceeds total lines ($total_lines) in ~/.ssh/known_hosts"
	return 1
	end
	sed -i '' "$argv[1]d" ~/.ssh/known_hosts

	dconf reset -f /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/tablets/056a:52b5/
	echo i2c-WACF2200:00 \| sudo tee /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/i2c_hid_acpi/unbind
	echo i2c-WACF2200:00 \| sudo tee /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/i2c_hid_acpi/bind

	I want to create a boiler plate project to create CLI commands that wrap around docker. Then have all the scripting in a Docker image and the CLI program passes the args and any ENV vars for secrets (api access) to the docker run.

	I am not easily finding anything like this, but this is a start:

	https://andrewlock.net/packaging-cli-programs-into-docker-images-to-avoid-dependency-hell/