Auto doesn't keep changes and gets stuck in an infinite loop

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

It will make some edits, and then add something else completely dropping the previous edits. It then sees those previous edits are gone and adds them back completely dropping the next previous edits. And so on and so on.

How I can “fix” it: It goes away when I quit and reopen cursor. It also sometimes goes away when I tell it to redo that request and revert changes. I can also babysit it and constantly click keep and that seems to help as well.

Steps to Reproduce

Literally just use auto to make changes to a program, after a while it happens. Although most recent testing it happened within 10-20 minutes. My program is pretty large.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.7 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 6aa7b3af0d578b9a3aa3ab443571e1a51ebb4e80
Date: 2025-08-27T22:43:32.248Z
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

Additional Information

It started last night. It does sometimes catch that it’s doing something wrong, but that won’t stop it from continuing

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

37097570-4ffb-4e0d-ac2c-b9ba1024bcbe

I just replicated it and enabled sharing for you guys

Version: 1.5.9 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: de327274300c6f38ec9f4240d11e82c3b0660b20
Date: 2025-08-30T21:02:27.236Z
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

that just got pushed out to me and it’s still happening

Hey, thanks for the report. We’ll investigate this.