Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Hi Cursor team, My Background Agent repeatedly fails with: “Agent encountered an error. We encountered an unexpected error repeatedly. You can retry by writing a follow-up below.” I cannot see “Copy Request ID” in the run…

Hey, thanks for the detailed report. The bcId and repro steps really help. This is a known bug, the same one as in this thread: Cloud agent reports error after initialization without additional information . The agent does bring up the environment and load the snapshot correctly, but the kickoff mes…

Background Agent fails repeatedly with “We encountered an unexpected error repeatedly” (no Request ID visible)

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Background Agent fails repeatedly with “We encountered an unexpected error repeatedly” (no Request ID visible)

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