Agents list keeps the orange needs-input dot after the chat has finished

[yasuyuki_inoue]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

In the Agents list, a finished local chat keeps the solid orange dot. A neighboring chat that really has a running job shows the separate working mark, and that mark is correct.

Cursor’s own definition is that the orange dot means the chat is waiting for input, and the other mark means it is working. This chat was not waiting. Its turn had ended, it had not asked a question, and it had no approval pending. Its terminals were not running. The row still showed the orange dot, with the age “6m”.

This is not the tracked “Finished agents still show as Working” report, which is about the working spinner and the Working pill:

Finished agents still show as Working

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug On Windows, after subagents finish (turn_ended: success in their transcripts), the Agents sidebar and the Working pill still show them as running. Stop and Stop All do not clear the entries. Reload Window does not clear them. Opening the chat shows “Worked for …”, so the turn is done, but the list still says the agent is working. This matches the zombie Working state already reported. The UI should reconcile with turn_ende…

It is also the opposite of the report where a session that needs confirmation keeps the working mark instead of the orange dot:

Glass UI: session bar shows "working" dot-matrix instead of orange "awaiting confirmation" dot when a subagent needs an allow/confirm

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE — Glass UI (session bar) Describe the Bug When a subagent pauses and waits for the user to confirm an action (e.g. an “Allow” prompt for a command or tool call), the session bar does not switch its status indicator to the orange dot that signals “waiting on you”. Instead it keeps displaying the animated dot-matrix indicator, which means “working / in progress”. Impact: if you have switched to a different session, there is no visual signal…

Steps to Reproduce

1. Finish an Agent chat so its turn has ended, with no question and no approval pending, and with no terminal left running.
2. Leave another Agent chat actually running.
3. Look at the Agents list without sending a new message.

Expected Behavior

The finished chat does not show the orange dot. The chat with a live job keeps the working mark.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Cursor 3.26.16

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[Colin]

Hey @yasuyuki_inoue,

You’re right that this is a different issue from the two threads you linked. The first is about the spinner staying on finished agents. The second was the opposite problem (no orange dot while a subagent waited for approval), and that one was fixed in 3.16.

What you’re seeing is the Agents list holding on to a saved “waiting on you” state for that chat after it finished. The “Formal verification task” chat looks like it was run as a task for another chat, and that kind of chat is where this state seems most likely to get left behind. The chat itself really did finish, as you said. I’ve flagged this to the team.

In the meantime, two things that may clear the dot:

1. Open that chat, then click a different chat.
2. If the dot is still there, right-click the row and archive it. Its work is done, so nothing is lost.

To help narrow it down, could you tell me:

1. Does the orange dot stay while that chat is open and selected?
2. Does it survive a window reload (Ctrl+Shift+P, then “Developer: Reload Window”)?
3. When you open the chat, do you see any approval card, question, or “Plan” pill anywhere in it?