Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I am trying to install Inspect AI - Visual Studio Marketplace When I do so, Cursor hangs on “Installing” and the installation never finishes. When I open up Developer Tools and look at the network tab, I see that Cursor is re…

Hey, thanks for the report. This looks like a client-side bug, not a network issue. I passed the info to the team to investigate. If you can, please check the “Response” tab in DevTools for one of those requests and paste it here. It’ll help us understand what exactly the server is returning.

Here’s the response from a randomly selected extensionquery query.

We are also facing similar issue for the Dbt Power User extension [image] Dbt Power User extension installation freezes with repeated "extensionquery" requests and "Failed to fetch" error Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Des…

Hi @deanrie I’m following up on the cursor extension installation freeze issue. Do we have any updates or a tentative timeline for when a permanent fix will be released? Thanks!

Same problem when trying to install Open VSX Registry

I managed to install the package manually via f1 > “install from vsix”

Also facing this issue for ruff and meta pyrefly. Did anybody find a fix apart from manual vsix installation?

Same for pyrefly for me. Ruff I can install

Came here because I’m experiencing the same issue for Ruff. I’d prefer not to manually install the vsix, especially since this seems like a Cursor bug. I’ve seen other people with this issue resolve it by manually adding the extension to .cursor/extensions/extensions.json, but to do that you need t…

Can't install extension—Cursor repeatedly fetches "extensionquery"

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Sai_Charan (Sai Charan) January 20, 2026, 3:19pm 5

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Can't install extension—Cursor repeatedly fetches "extensionquery"

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