Cloud Agent: when there are committed changes but no PR, there is no branch shown in the Web UI and can't checkout branch or copy branch name in the IDE

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cloud Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear)

Describe the Bug

After a Cloud Agent finishes, pushes a branch with commits, and no PR is created (usually when requested explicitly not to create one), branch handoff is broken in the UI and there is no straightforward way to find the branch:

  1. Web (cursor.com/agents): The created branch is not shown in the UI.
  2. Cursor Desktop — branch label: The session shows the branch as “New branch” instead of the real name (e.g. cursor/...).
  3. Cursor Desktop — copy: Clicking the control that should copy the branch name (click to copy) copies nothing (clipboard stays unchanged / no branch string).
  4. Cursor Desktop — Checkout Branch: Checkout Branch does not check out the agent’s branch (no-op or silent failure).

Steps to Reproduce

Start a Cloud Agent to make some random changes (should be automatically comitted and pushed) but explicitly ask it to not create a PR. Then verify the behavior in the description above.

Expected Behavior

Should be obvious. All 4 points in the description should be fixed.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.12.30
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 63a2996a10d9e476b6c28e951dd7691d9c0cf480
Date: 2026-07-21T22:50:03.568Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey @ShreckYe ,

The short version: when a Cloud Agent pushes a branch but you tell it not to open a PR, the branch never gets registered back to the agent, so the app has no branch name to display. That single gap is why all four things break together - the web UI shows no branch, the desktop label falls back to “New branch”, click-to-copy does nothing, and Checkout Branch has nothing to act on. I’ve reported this to our team to fix (so a pushed branch is recorded even when no PR is created).

Your changes are safe in the meantime - the branch really is on GitHub, you just have to grab it manually for now:

  1. Find the branch name — it’s in the agent’s chat transcript (the agent usually prints the push output and a .../pull/new/cursor/... link in its final message), and it also shows up in your repo’s branch list on GitHub (it starts with cursor/).
  2. From your local terminal: git fetch origin <branch> then git checkout <branch>.

I’ll update this thread if there’s progress. Let me know if that gets you unblocked!