Cursor is dying! At first, the smaller bits of functionality stated crumbling like @ references. With the latest upgrade to 1.7.28 the chat now stopped working. “Loading chat” forever.
A while ago everything was good and cursor was shipping new features continuously. Now everything is crumbling with no improvement in sight. Why is this happening? Has cursor switched to 100% ai development without human in the loop to monitor what’s going on? This is not good at all.
Steps to Reproduce
Upgrade to 1.7.28. Open cursor. Chat not coming up.
Operating System
Linux
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Probably something on my machine, but it makes using Cursor basically unusable if I quit the app/restart computer, and I have to start a completely new chat session each time. History is no longer recent, and in some cases does not even load.
Steps to Reproduce
Open Cursor
Last open chat sessions loads indefinitely (displays “Loading Chat”)
Last chat history shows history way back instead of recent sessions
In one project, history does not even loads, I get error message “[composer] No composer data handle found” (see screenshot)
PSA: Just updated to latest version and opened the “improved agent review window” as recommended in the app, and lost 1+ month of chat history.
When I closed that window, it asked me if I wanted to save my workspace settings, and I didn’t because I didn’t want anything about that new agentic review area to mess up my core Cursor IDE area, so I chose “don’t save.”
This then de-synced everything about my core project — it wiped all of my workspace settings and a month of chats.
I’m absolutely gutted, as I have a number of “starter chats” that I’ve poured a lot of time into for pre-loading context, which I dupe and branch for my large projects.
I have a monorepo workspace with each folder added to the workspace.
I’m used to the Jetbrains world vs. VS Code, so I didn’t explicitly save the workspace settings. (Maybe that’s the cause)
The only chats I see now upon re-wiring everything end at the milestone I was at about a month ago when I added the various monorepo dirs to the project separately.
My bug feels like an edge case that hopefully most users won’t run into, but I wanted to post it because I am low-key devastated.
I’ve always put so much focus on committing my code with git — I never stopped to think how dependent I am on my chat history itself.
Steps to Reproduce
Open root folder in workspace
Have “chat A” in it
Add multiple folders to workspace
Maybe re-arrange them a bit so that the former root folder isn’t at the top of the list anymore
Have a new chat “chat b”
Don’t ever save workspace
Open Agent window
Do some stuff in there
Close it and choose “don’t save workspace”
Your main IDE workspace will lose any progress from step 4 onwards
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
I have been working on the same project for sometime and everyday chat history was working fine where I would pickup where I left off the next day. However, unlike most times I decided to turn off my laptop over night and upon logging back in I noticed that a whole day (maybe few days) of chat history is gone. The chat history is intact for the most part just not the last day or two. This is unfortunate because a lot of work was done.
Is this a common bug. Are there ways to revive my chat? Do I have any options?
Steps to Reproduce
Yes, however, not sure if there is a way to see time stamps in chats.
Operating System
Windows 10/11
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
I also realized, today, after chatting in the same chat instance (the same insatance that has a history of one whole week of chatting) is unable to make any new memories or add to the chat. This means that conversations I had 5 min ago are deleted upon restart. It always revert to the last thing discussed which was more than a day ago. I don’t ever remember it working this way and I have been using cursor for a long time now. Has something changed?
I was using Agent and, all of a sudden, it thought I was a free user instead of a paid user (I have the Ultra plan). It showed me a message saying I could only use GPT 4.1 because it thought I was a free user.
I then restarted Cursor and updated to the latest version. Now when I try to load conversation history in the agent, I get an error message in the bottom left that says “[composer] No composer data handle found” and I’m not able to load any previous chats.
Steps to Reproduce
Not sure what caused it to think I was a free user instead of a paid user. I think the chat history may be related to upgrading to the latest version.
Operating System
Mac OS 14.5 (23F79)
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.7.38
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: fe5d1728063e86edeeda5bebd2c8e14bf4d0f960
Date: 2025-10-06T18:18:58.523Z (1 day ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.5.0
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Yes, I can’t retrieve the chat history where I was in the middle of working sessions.
