Cursor agent won't implement changes

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Since the new update, the cursor agent will loop on and thinks that it proposes changes in the code, but nothing actually is proposed.

Steps to Reproduce

Write a prompt using opus 4.6

Expected Behavior

The agent should propose changes

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.4.35 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: d2bf8ec12017b1049f304ad3a5c8867b117ed830
Date: 2026-02-10T02:46:56.793Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Opus 4.7

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hey, thanks for the report. Here are a few things that’ll help with debugging:

  1. Can you grab the Request ID? (top right of the chat > Copy Request ID) This lets us trace what’s happening on the server side.
  2. Does this happen with every model, or only with Opus? Try switching to Sonnet or Gemini and see if the same thing happens.
  3. Can you reproduce this in a totally new, simple project (for example, a fresh folder with a single file), or only in your current project?

We’ve seen one cause that produces this exact symptom, where the agent loops thinking it made changes but nothing shows up. Invisible characters in the source files, like non-breaking spaces (U+00A0). The agent’s StrReplace fails silently because the spaces don’t match. A user in this thread Cursor fails to edit files had the same issue and fixed it by cleaning those characters.

Quick way to check: open Find and Replace Ctrl+H, enable regex, and search the whole project for \x{00A0}. If you get matches, replace them with normal spaces.

Let me know if that helps or if the issue is something else.

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