CLI just says "Generating..." for a long time

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

The agent just says “Generating…” for a long time. There’s no way to tell if anything is happening. It’s still responsive, I can Ctrl+R, send new chats, and Ctrl+C, but nothing new happens. If I kill it and start again, it works fine.

Steps to Reproduce

cursor-agent
Use as normal.
Eventually it just doesn’t seem to be doing anything.

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

CLI version 2025.08.15-dbc8d73

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

2

Model: Claude 4 Sonnet.

EDIT: seems to be happening with GPT-5 as well.

3

Hey, thanks for the report. Could you also specify your Linux distribution?

4

Thanks for the quick reply!

Welcome to Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.11.0-1018-azure x86_64)

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Hmm, I also just tried resuming a session (e.g. cursor-agent --resume=e8618bde-5a9b-42f9-bc31-362678a51553) and it was able to get past Generating and on to Thinking, so that’s good.

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Thanks for the info, it might have been temporary. Please let me know if it happens again.

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Well no, the issue is still occurring. I’m just able to work around the issue by doing Ctrl+C and then resuming the session. But I would prefer to not have to do that.

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I have seen this as well, especially with -p - f, it finishes a task and just hangs. Sometimes it it will quit after N seconds, sometimes it take a long time.

Sounds related.

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@sam.saffron the case you mentioned are not related as there the AI output works but in OPs case the output hangs at Generating…

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