Background Agent error for required usage limit of $10 is inaccurate or misleading

Describe the Bug

Attempting to use Background Agents without Usage-Based pricing enabled results in an error stating that a minimum of $10 is required in the hard limit before it can be used. This issue also extends to the Slack integration.

Steps to Reproduce

  • Set the usage limit to $10
  • Attempt to use the Background Agent feature directly in Cursor or via the Slack bot

Expected Behavior

Expected it to run the background agent with $10 set in the usage limit.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.1
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: f81622395bb52bc30ed251a6299eeaf51ab49110
Date: 2025-06-12T09:07:09.121Z (3 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Additional Information

I also tried increasing it to $20 and $30, but I still received the same error. It worked after I set it to $50.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue