Agent won't let you prompt after manually stopping mid-task with a pending to-do task

[tstcm]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When agent is doing a task, and there is a to-do list, if you stop the agent mid-task and try to send another prompt, it just doesn’t take it anymore. You can spam the prompt many times, and it just does nothing.

If you open another tab in the chat, it works with no problem. But that tab has 0 context about what the other one was doing, so it’s immensely sub-optimal for long tasks.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Ask the agent to do a task that will make it break it down into a to-do list. Then, do one of these two things:

2.A. When it’s asking to execute a terminal command, reject it.
2.B. Send a new prompt, that gets added to the queue, and force it to be executed.

3. Then, try sending another prompt to the agent.

4. Feel the frustration.

   Duplicating the tab doesn’t fix it. Restarting Cursor also doesn’t fix it.
   You basically loose all the task’s context.

Expected Behavior

Accept the prompt and continue with the tasks in the to-do.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.11 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 2f2737de9aa376933d975ae30290447c910fdf40
Date: 2025-09-05T03:48:32.332Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Happens on any Model offered by cursor IDE

Additional Information

Started happening a couple weeks ago.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report, we’ll look into it.

[tstcm]

Looks fixed now using version 1.6.45. I think it’s safe to close the issue now