Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear) Describe the Bug Starting about 1 hour ago, all of our Background Agents fail with “Something with wrong.” Steps to Reproduce It does not matter whether we start them from the website or within Cursor. Scre…

Thanks @joeo for the info - and glad to hear it’s working again. We’re going to continue investigating to ensure it doesn’t happen again!

Background Agents Always Failing with "Something Went Wrong"

romil8jain (romil) October 3, 2025, 3:13pm 12

I tried it again this morning and its working for me now.

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Cursor web BG agent not accepting follow ups

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