BugBot review runtime ~9–12 minutes per PR — normal or something off?

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

BugBot

Describe the Bug

I’ve been using BugBot and the output quality is pretty solid, but I’m seeing very consistent runtimes of ~9–12 minutes per review.

What’s weird is that commit/PR size doesn’t seem to change the time much (small diffs and larger diffs both land in that same 9–12 min window).

Questions:

Is ~10 minutes per review typical for BugBot right now?

If not, what are the most common causes of slow reviews?

Are there any settings or best practices to reduce runtime

Steps to Reproduce

COmmit to an open PR

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.5.26 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 7d96c2a03bb088ad367615e9da1a3fe20fbbc6a0
Date: 2026-02-26T04:57:56.825Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. A few minutes of wait time is expected since BugBot does a thorough analysis, but 9 to 12 minutes consistently, especially for small diffs, sounds a bit high.

Could you go to a PR where this happens and leave a comment: bugbot run verbose=true? That’ll give you a request ID that starts with serverGenReqId_.... Share it here so we can check the logs on our end.

Also, are you using .cursor/BUGBOT.md rules in the repo? Complex rule sets can add processing time.