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Hey, this is a known issue. We saw the same thing with a few users last week.

Most of the time it’s caused by MCP servers or third-party API key settings that block the connection. Try this:

  1. Cursor Settings > Tools & MCP: If you have any MCP servers connected (especially Perplexity, Figma, or custom ones), temporarily disable all of them.

  2. Cursor Settings > Models: Make sure “Override OpenAI Base URL” is turned off. If you added any third-party API keys (OpenAI or Anthropic), temporarily disable those too.

  3. Sign out and sign back in (Cursor Settings > Sign Out, then Sign In).

  4. Open a new chat in a different project folder to test.

This worked for other users with the exact same issue:

If that doesn’t help, try launching Cursor from Terminal with cursor --disable-extensions to rule out extension conflicts.

Let me know how it goes.

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