Connect via SSH button broken

Support Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The connect via SSH button is broken for me, and has been for the past week or so.
Clicking the button does nothing!

I had no problem SSH’ing into VMs with GPUs that I had access to earlier, but somehow over the past week - I haven’t been able to work at all with VMs.

Steps to Reproduce

Open the cursor app, click “Connect via SSH”.

Expected Behavior

Should connect to remote SSH server/open drop-down menu for user to select the server/

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.6.18
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 68fbec5aed9da587d1c6a64172792f505bafa250
Date: 2026-03-10T02:01:17.430Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.4.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

4

Hey, thanks for the report. Let’s narrow this down a bit.

Can you try these steps:

  • Open Command Palette Cmd+Shift+P and run Remote-SSH: Connect to Host - does that work?
  • Go to Extensions Cmd+Shift+X and search for “Remote SSH” - is the Anysphere Remote SSH extension enabled?
  • Also try: Cmd+Shift+P > Developer: Toggle Developer Tools, then click the “Connect via SSH” button again and check the Console tab for any errors.

If step 1 works but the button doesn’t, that confirms a UI-specific bug. If step 1 also does nothing, the extension is likely deactivated or corrupted - try uninstalling and reinstalling the Remote SSH extension, or as a last resort reinstalling Cursor.

Let me know what you find.

5

  1. Command Shift P + Remote-SSH does not work either.

  2. Tried re-installing the SSH extension, and it’s not working. I tried backdating it to the last version where I knew it was working (roughly 2 weeks ago), and got the following error:

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    Already re-installed and uninstalled cursor, downgraded versions, tried everything. I don’t know why this is happening TBH.

6

Also, I did try re-installing and installing the same version of the SSH extension, and it’s still not working (latest version: V 1.0.46)

7

Fixed it by disabling every possible extension, and then enabling only SSH Anyshpere Remote Connection.

As a result, Pylance is not working now - even when I’ve installed it both locally and on the VM.

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