Background agents not able to Commit, Push, PR

Describe the Bug

For the last two days my background agents after maybe 2 or 3 iterations receive the following error messages:

“tooling is temporarily blocking file edits”

“I’m still blocked by a temporary workspace tooling issue that prevents reading/editing files. As soon as it’s resolved, I’ll implement:”

If I try to open the branch locally or do a PR, I just get an internal error like this: “Failed to create pull request: [internal] Error”

If I open a new background agent it connects just fine, but I have to start all over from scratch.
Or if I open the very first branch it created I then have to re-create all of the steps once again. But now I’m missing all of the changes that it had made and hope it will redesign what it did on the files I can’t check out locally.

Steps to Reproduce

Just use background agents, and after 2 or 3 prompts they are no longer able to push to github.

If I try to check out locally

Expected Behavior

Commit and push changes to Github.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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