Cursor Crashing on editor prompts 70% of the time

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

For the last couple days around 70-80% of the time when I initiate a prompt in editor Cursor crashes in the middle of prompt response. Anyone experience this before? Screenshot of crash dialog box below. When restarting Cursor sometimes the editor just spins after I enter a prompt and never proceeds. Usually takes me another force quit on app and reopen until its usable again.

Steps to Reproduce

Simply just using the editor

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.36 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 55c9bc11e99cedd1fb93fbb7996abf779c583150
Date: 2025-12-18T06:25:21.733Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Cursor 2.2.36 is crashing frequently
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Hey, thanks for the report. Error code: 5 is a known issue in version 2.2.x, and the team is working on a fix.

  1. Run Cursor without extensions to check:
cursor --disable-extensions

  1. If the problem goes away, check which extension causes the crash: Cmd+Shift+P > Developer: Open Extension Monitor

  2. If that doesn’t help, try running without GPU:

cursor --disable-gpu

For accurate diagnosis, we need logs:

  • Cmd+Shift+P > Developer: Open Logs Folder - send the error log file
  • Cmd+Shift+P > Developer: Toggle Developer Tools > Console tab - screenshot of errors at the crash moment

This will help find the exact cause without resetting settings.