Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Hi Cursor Support/Engineering, I’m seeing a repeatable issue where Cursor’s Agent becomes effectively unusable over Remote SSH when the remote machine has very large / slow storage (e.g., an NFS mount with millions of directo…

For anyone else struggling, the shell script got me unstuck. Obviously change the glob to match your environment run the script then: pkill -f ‘\.cursor-server/.*node’ || true pkill -f ‘/ripgrep/.*/rg’ || true cursor will ask if you want to reconnect. #!/bin/bash DIR=`find ~/.cursor-server/ -…

Hey, thanks for the report. I’m passing it to the team. This is related to how the bundled ripgrep handles VCS markers, and the fix isn’t in the stable ripgrep release yet. Thanks for the wrapper script workaround, it should help other users with a similar setup.

We are working on a fix for this – thanks for raising this issue.

Bug: Agent becomes unusable over Remote SSH due to ripgrep `.jj` filesystem walk despite `--no-ignore` (NFS / huge trees)

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ravirahman (Ravi Rahman) January 16, 2026, 12:07am 8

This will be fixed in the upcoming 2.4 release.

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Bug: Agent becomes unusable over Remote SSH due to ripgrep `.jj` filesystem walk despite `--no-ignore` (NFS / huge trees)

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