After any request in the chat (even a very simple one), the message “Taking longer than expected…” appears and just hangs forever (5+ minutes, never finishes).
Restarting Cursor, restarting the PC, clearing cache, switching models - nothing helps.
The problem appears right from the very first message in a new chat.
Steps to Reproduce
Open Cursor.
Start a new chat.
Write any prompt (for example, “hello” or “hi”).
Press send → it gets stuck forever on “Taking longer than expected…”
Hey, thanks for the report. Here are a few things to try and check:
Run the network diagnostics: Cursor Settings > Network > Run Diagnostics. Please share a screenshot of the results here.
Disable HTTP/2. Add this to your settings.json (Ctrl+Shift+P > Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)):
"cursor.general.disableHttp2": true
Then restart Cursor.
Are you using a VPN, proxy, or a corporate firewall? If yes, please try without them.
Can you reproduce this in a brand new empty folder? (File > Open Folder > pick an empty directory, start a new chat, type “hello”)
Also, next time it freezes, please grab the Request ID. Open the context menu (top right of the chat) > Copy Request ID, then paste it here. That’s the main thing we need to investigate this on the backend.
This has been happening to me all day as well since I upgraded to 2.5.20 on Linux. Admittedly on a fairly long chat, but it wasn’t happening before today’s upgrade, which leads me to believe that something is amiss in the new code. I will try the ‘standard advice’ given above.
Hey, I’m having the exact same problem, tried everything above and Cursor is unusable. I’m in a rush and can’t deal with this. Can you confirm if you’ll find a solution and when?
Thank you
Last 1-2 days the same for me. Stuck in planning next moves etc, timing out etc, all the time. SUper slow and sluggings in general when not stuck.
Version: 2.5.25 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 7150844152b426ed50d2b68dd6b33b5c5beb73c0
Date: 2026-02-24T07:17:49.417Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Also experiencing the same issue past 3 days, seems to occur when running chatgpt 5.3 codex high. Seems it a bug that needs affecting. It’s likely chewing more tokens as it has to keep going back over code and rethink. Wasting money
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Same here, I always get stuck because the Cursor agent freezes and shows the message ‘Taking longer than expected.’ I’m using Team Plan. Does anyone have experience fixing this?
I don’t think it is gonna be a success for me - did as you told and after restart the app is progressing but still really simple tasks takes oddly long time to finalize.
I was able to move for the last 2 months in a really good tempo with coding and now it is barely possible
Go to file → preferences → cursor settings → Indexing & Docs. Sync or Delete index and reindex. This solved it for me after having an issue with indexing my project initially.
same issue
i deleted the state files, reinstalled the app, re-indexed the project, downloaded the latest version.
my network diagnostics all passed. i set the http setting.
i mostly work on auto mode, but this happens in specific agents agent. At least once an hour, for the past few weeks.
I am on Windows 11 Enterprise 23H2.
Nothing is fixing it.
here is request id’s
9c0b8450-dc01-4acb-af67-663a9983d523
f09e60b5-ead7-4251-ba5b-8cc3d6ad6755
