Cursor Auto Spinning Its Wheels

[Erik_Passoja]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Somewhere else…

Describe the Bug

Cursor Auto: fills up to ~100%, starts spinning, never stops. This doesn’t happen with non-Auto options.

Steps to Reproduce

Run Cursor in Auto for a while. Fills up quickly. Then it just hangs. Have to start a new session and re: prompt from scratch each time.

Expected Behavior

Two options (1) Create a larger context window for Auto (2) Start over from 0% like ChatGPT version of Cursor does and keep going.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.6.27 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: d750e54bba5cffada6d7b3d18e5688ba5e944ad0
Date: 2025-09-17T20:21:17.042Z (5 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Auto

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I couldn’t reproduce it. However, I noticed that you’re using an old version of Cursor. Try updating to version 1.6.42. we’ve made many improvements in this update.

[Erik_Passoja]

Hi @deanrie ,

Thanks for your message. Updated Cursor.

Issue remains, unfortunately. In situations like this, I stop the command, put it in GPT5 mode, and pay for it. Any idea what might be the issue?

Best,
Erik

[deanrie]

Try creating a new chat and refer to your previous chat. It works somewhat like summarizing. Perhaps this chat has been around for a long time. I tried to reproduce it, but I couldn’t.