# 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 **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Tags:** github, cloud-agents\ **Created:** [July 22, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cloud-agent-when-there-are-committed-changes-but-no-pr-there-is-no-branch-shown-in-the-web-ui-and-cant-checkout-branch-or-copy-branch-name-in-the-ide/166347 "2026-07-22T07:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShreckYe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/shreckye/32/113772_2.png) [@ShreckYe](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ShreckYe)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cloud-agent-when-there-are-committed-changes-but-no-pr-there-is-no-branch-shown-in-the-web-ui-and-cant-checkout-branch-or-copy-branch-name-in-the-ide/166347/1 "2026-07-22T07:34:30Z")
### 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](http://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 ---
**Author:** ![mohitjain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/mohitjain/32/100229_2.png) [@mohitjain](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mohitjain)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cloud-agent-when-there-are-committed-changes-but-no-pr-there-is-no-branch-shown-in-the-web-ui-and-cant-checkout-branch-or-copy-branch-name-in-the-ide/166347/7 "2026-07-24T08:45:22Z")
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 ` then `git checkout `. I’ll update this thread if there’s progress. Let me know if that gets you unblocked!