All agents inside IDE currently unresponsive

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

all my agents are now unresponsive. I suspect this is part of the current Grok Bots issue?

Steps to Reproduce

try to use any agents. they never response. *planning..preparing.. - but no response. *hung.

Expected Behavior

agents respond quickly

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.20.21 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: f09fca384ceca23f7bf21f9c23655b162641d740
Date: 2026-09-13T19:02:51.781Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 42.10.0
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.1
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.291
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Grok 4.6 Extra High, also Claude Opus 4.6 High

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hi @CuriousKal, thanks for reporting this.

This appears separate from the Grok Bot issue on the status page. Your Agent attempts are timing out locally before reaching the model, across both Grok and Claude. This started after the update to Cursor 3.20.21 and isn’t caused by anything in your setup.

I’ve made a change on our side that should move your next Cursor session off the affected path. Please:

  1. Open Task Manager and end every Cursor process.
  2. Reopen Cursor.
  3. Start a new Agent chat and send a short message such as “hello.”

Please let me know whether Agent responds normally afterward.

If it still hangs, press Ctrl+Shift+P, run Capture and Send Debugging Data, and accept the defaults. Please also copy the Request ID from the conversation menu and share it with the approximate time of the test. If the debugging command saves a zip file to your Desktop instead of uploading it, attach that file here.

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Yes, I did what you asked.

The agents are working properly now.

Thanks

9

hi @kevinn

Cursor IDE agents are UNRESPONSIVE again.

i tried closing down Cursor IDE and restarting.
That didnt help.

I updated the Cursor IDE version, that also did not help.

10

@kevinn

The agents in the Cursor IDE are now responding appropriately.

I guess it was a short term glitch that was resolved as of now.

11

Thank you for confirming! Let us know if anything comes up again.

12

hi @kevinn ,

The grok agents are unresponsive again. Just started happening.

I tried Claude Opus 4.6 and its responding to “are you there” requests appropriately.
Grok 4.6 Extra High is not responding currently.

request id:
Request ID: 85447bfd-8dbd-4bf1-889a-4056b788b465
RetriableError: [resource_exhausted] Error
at J5f (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:8151:217047)
at Zio (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:8151:215473)
at C6f (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:8152:14075)
at Object.classify (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:8152:18296)
at b6f (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:8152:6340)
at async cro.run (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:8152:17603)
at async kle.runAgentLoop (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:8252:31373)
at async J6o._runWakeupAction (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:17701:22631)
at async J6o._maybeDispatchBackgroundCompletions (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/kgohi/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:17701:29409)

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Hi @CuriousKal Sorry about this! This error was due to high load, most likely related to a current service degradation with Grok models, more info here: https://status.cursor.com/

Feel free to try another model in the meantime, and the status page will be updated when everything is back to normal. Sorry for the inconvenience here!

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@kevinn All models are unresponsive for me as well using any model. I’m currently on version 3.21.9 (Windows). Are you able to make a similar change to remove me from the affected path as well? I noticed this in the morning and haven’t been able to use the agent all day. Appreciate the help!