# Cursor won't stop sometimes

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-wont-stop-sometimes/147799>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [January 2, 2026, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-wont-stop-sometimes/147799 "2026-01-02T07:40:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jamesdolan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/jamesdolan/32/62115_2.png) [@jamesdolan](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jamesdolan)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-wont-stop-sometimes/147799/1 "2026-01-02T07:40:43Z")

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### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

### Describe the Bug

Cursor, at least with Opus 4.5, will sometimes keep going ■■■■■■■ up files and won’t stop no matter how many times I slam the stop button or tell it to stop, it will sit there and then wake back up and start wrecking havoc. I am sure this is great for your token counts and billing, but its driving me nuts.

### Steps to Reproduce

Happens very frequently but no exact repro. I am sure you have seen this before given it happens many times a day for me.

### Expected Behavior

Stop when I click stop, immediately, and without question. This is something that shouldn’t be up to the LLM, when I hit that button it should simply halt the model. This should work equally for every single model guys!

### Operating System

Windows 10/11  
MacOS  
Linux

### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.18 (Universal)  
VSCode Version: 1.105.1  
Commit: df371ac0d93fe1a68d05eeb59a09c5c39add0c80  
Date: 2026-01-01T01:49:45.089Z  
Electron: 37.7.0  
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251  
Node.js: 22.20.0  
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0  
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

### For AI issues: which model did you use?

Opus 4.5

### Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-wont-stop-sometimes/147799/2 "2026-01-02T08:42:11Z")

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Hey, thanks for the report.

This is a known issue, and the team is working on a fix. A similar bug was reported recently: [Agent ignoring stop button and calls to stop in the chat](https://forum.cursor.com/t/agent-ignoring-stop-button-and-calls-to-stop-in-the-chat/147606)

Workarounds for now:

- Close the terminal manually (trash icon in the terminal panel)
- Restart Cursor if the agent stops responding completely
- As a last resort, close the chat tab and start a new one

To help the team fix this faster, could you share:

- The Request ID next time this happens (top-right chat menu \> Copy Request ID)
- A short video or a detailed description of what the agent was doing when it refused to stop
- Whether you were using Planning mode or the regular agent

Let me know if the workarounds help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-wont-stop-sometimes/147799/3 "2026-01-24T08:42:14Z")

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Closed on January 24, 2026, 8:42am UTC

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