Cant turn on parallel agents

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Attempting to turn them on in the ‘local’ drop down shows the tooltip ‘Multiple Models requires a git repository’

However git is connected and working in cursor, i can see at the bottom left git showing the current branch its connected to.
Agents mash everything into the one repo so I cant run them in parallel is the result.

Steps to Reproduce

Cannot click ‘local’ drop down in agent selection

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.17 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 6757269838ae9ac4caaa2be13f396fdfbcf1f9a0
Date: 2025-11-21T08:55:17.983Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the report. The message “Multiple Models requires a git repository” suggests that Cursor might not be detecting the git repository correctly, even if Git is connected.

Could you share the following information:

  1. Workspace location: Is your workspace opened at the root folder of the git repository (where the .git folder is located)? You can check this via File > Open Recent to see the exact path.

  2. Screenshot: A screenshot of your file explorer (File Explorer/Finder) showing the folder structure of your workspace.

  3. Console errors: Check if any errors appear when you try to enable parallel agents (Help > Toggle Developer Tools > Console tab).

The parallel agents feature requires the workspace to be opened at the root of the git repository. If you currently have a nested folder of the repository opened, try opening the root folder instead and see if that fixes the issue.

Please let me know what you find.

Thanks, its not opened to the root folder containing .git, but a subfolder (the root has a lot of stuff I dont want under consideration). If it could look in parent folders for the .git folder that would be awesome! or at least an error explaining i need to open the root folder. thanks.

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