Cloud agents are not working

[Trent_Walls]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear)

Describe the Bug

When I create a cloud agent it completes in under 5 seconds and makes no changes.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a cloud agent
2. Notice the cloud agents makes no changes and completes in less than 5 seconds

Expected Behavior

The cloud agent should start and attempt to make changes.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.41 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1321aa9140784391e83a406174345e818fe156f0
Date: 2025-11-30T18:58:57.968Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Opus 4.5
GPT-5.1

For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled

da4f2ed2-1c4d-459b-90b1-2abd68fb8114

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[condor (Condor (Tee))]

Is this a duplicate of Worktre agents disappearing from list?

From what I know Cloud Agents (Background Agents) Request IDs start with bc- and the one you shared above is not similar.

[odinnix (Dustin)]

I’m having the same problem. And no, its not the same as the agent disappearing. The agent just immediately completes.

I also can’t ‘export chat’ or ‘get request id’ - nothing works.

[ramrengaswamy (Ram Kumar Rengaswamy)]

I am having the same problem.

Version: 2.1.46

VSCode Version: 1.105.1

Commit: ab326d0767c02fb9847b342c43ea58275c4b1680

Date: 2025-12-02T03:59:29.283Z (14 hrs ago)

Electron: 37.7.0

Chromium: 138.0.7204.251

Node.js: 22.20.0

V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0

OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

[Javier_Cardenas]

I momentarily see this as the cloud agent attempts to spin up Allocating resources for this agent (request id: fake-composer-placeholder-bc-id)… but it immediately fails and I am unable to copy the request ID.

Version: 2.1.46
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: ab326d0767c02fb9847b342c43ea58275c4b1680
Date: 2025-12-02T03:59:29.283Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0