Composer 1.5 and Codex 5.3 show "Reconnecting" repeatedly, then a Provider Error and cannot connect to the model provider

Hey, thanks for the report.

This is a known pattern. The mix of resource_exhausted and an endless “Reconnecting” loop usually points to MCP servers or third party API key conflicts that block the connection.

Please try this:

  • Cursor Settings > Tools & MCP: If you have any MCP servers connected (especially Perplexity, Figma, or custom ones), temporarily disable them all.
  • Cursor Settings > Models: Make sure “Override OpenAI Base URL” is off. If you added any third party API keys (OpenAI or Anthropic), temporarily disable those too.
  • Sign out and sign back in (Cursor Settings > Sign Out, then Sign In).
  • Start a new chat in a new project folder to test.

This helped other users in the same situation:

If that doesn’t help, try starting Cursor from the terminal with cursor --disable-extensions to rule out extension conflicts.

Let me know how it goes.