Cursor Agent not working at all

Describe the Bug

When you message the agent it just gets stuck on thinking and doesn’t respond at all

Steps to Reproduce

Tbh I don’t know, this doesn’t happen to me on other devices.

Expected Behavior

The agent receives the request and answers

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

IDE:

Version: 2.6.20
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: b29eb4ee5f9f6d1cb2afbc09070198d3ea6ad760
Date: 2026-03-17T01:50:02.404Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

I tried all, literally

For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled

Request ID: 8afef700-ae04-4c50-9890-17ac600eb1d3

Additional Information

I’ve tried everything.. the network diagnostics return clean, tried http 1/1.1, re-indexing, reinstalling cursor, retrying other version… nothing works.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hey, thanks for the detailed report and the request ID.

Since this only happens on one specific device and everything else checks out network diagnostics are clean, you reinstalled, reindexed, and tried all models, let’s narrow it down further:

  1. Test in an empty folder: File > Open Folder, pick a completely empty directory, open a new chat, type hello. Does it respond? This rules out project specific issues.

  2. Disable all extensions: Run Cursor from terminal with cursor --disable-extensions, then try chatting. Extension conflicts are the most common cause of device specific hangs like this.

  3. Console logs: Open Help > Toggle Developer Tools > Console tab. Try sending a message, wait for it to get stuck, then copy and paste whatever errors appear in the console. This will tell us where exactly it’s failing.

  4. Network specifics on this machine: Is this device on a different network than the ones that work? Any VPN, proxy, firewall, or corporate network setup that differs?

The team is aware of this class of issues. Your request ID helps. Let me know what you find with the steps above, especially 1 and 2, since those are the fastest way to isolate the cause.

1 & 2. Already tested, niot working
4. No, the only difference between the 2 machines is the OS, the other one is windows and it doesnt have some extensions and stuff that my main one has
3. Errors:

McpError: MCP error -32000: Connection closed

Error: cannot encode field agent.v1.CursorRule.type to JSON:
cannot encode field agent.v1.CursorRuleType.agent_fetched to JSON:
cannot encode field agent.v1.CursorRuleTypeAgentFetched.description to JSON

[composer] No first token received within 2s → 16s

[transport] Connect error:
[unauthenticated] You must be a team member to access this resource

I decided to cut some unrelated errors aswell as some information i dont want to post in a forum, i can send the entire console by mail tho

These console errors are really helpful. I see a few things worth checking:

  1. Error [unauthenticated] You must be a team member to access this resource
    This looks suspicious, since you have an individual Ultra account. Try this:
  • Cursor Settings > Sign Out, then fully quit Cursor and sign in again
  1. Error cannot encode field agent.v1.CursorRule.type to JSON
    This looks like something is broken in your rules config. Check:
  • Do you have .cursorrules or .cursor/rules files in the project? If yes, try temporarily deleting or renaming them and see if the agent works without them
  • In Cursor Settings > Rules, do you have anything in global rules? Try clearing them temporarily
  1. McpError: MCP error -32000: Connection closed
    Do you have MCP servers configured? Try temporarily disabling all MCP servers in settings and test again.

Start with step 1 first. An auth issue could be the root cause of everything else.

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