Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Actual behavior: Two errors appear: “Edit attempted — Invalid arguments” popup when the agent’s edit tool tries to apply the change through the editor’s document model. The edit does not appear in the editor buffer. The agent…

Hey, thanks for the report. There’s an important mismatch. Your version info shows OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0, which is macOS, but the bug description and file paths like C:\opti and file:///c%3A/ point to Windows. Are you connecting to a Windows machine via Remote-SSH from your Mac? If yes, this is …

Thanks, man! Good catch - I am connecting to windows machine via Remote-SSH from my Mac. I’ll give the workaround a shot. Hope they patch this, though. Cheers!

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Going to suggest we move any conversation about this over here! Should be a fix to test soon. [image] Write and StrReplace tools return "Invalid arguments" when workspace is opened via Remote-SSH (Mac → Windows) Bug Reports Hi all! Thanks for the feedback her…

Hey @dizbiz ! The agent file edit ‘Invalid arguments’ error has been addressed in a recent Cursor update. Updating to the latest version should resolve this.

Agent edit tool fails with "Invalid arguments" on Windows when editing open files in the editor

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Agent edit tool fails with "Invalid arguments" on Windows when editing open files in the editor

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