I’ve run into an issue where Cursor’s AI chat abruptly loses all context in the middle of a chat and sometimes in the middle of a response. It has happened multiple times in the past week or so. It behaves as if it’s started a brand-new chat and is unable to recall anything from the current conversa…

Me too, constantly. It tells me I gave it a summary, but I didn’t and then it can’t remember even 2 prompts back in history.

I’m thinking it may be a connection related issue because it usually happens when it takes a long time for the ai to generate a response or when I have a few connection failed attempts. It is almost like there is an internal session timeout or something while waiting for the connection or response, …

It doesn’t seem like a connection issue.. just after the chat context gets to a certain size it auto-summarizes, sends it as a hidden message to the llm and trims all conversation context prior to the new summary. Similar to manually hitting the new chat button.. only it will do it in the middle of …

I agree it is quite possibly a context limit issue. However for me it doesn’t appear to be creating the summary as it has absolutely no knowledge of anything it has done or discussed. If I do try the start new chat with summary, the summary is just something like: “the user asked what had been disc…

Same here. It’s getting worse and worse. Even a brand new project with new chat has this problem. [image]

Context dropout mid response

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bwads001 (Bryan Wadsworth) May 6, 2025, 6:43pm 6

Happened again here. Context was purged on step 3 of a 4 step form. Cursor has no idea it is already complete with step 1. I will likely need to delete the form and start over.

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Context dropout mid response

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