Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug The local extension host crashes repeatedly (3 times within 5 minutes) with exit code 18446744072635810000. The affected extensions are anysphere.cursor-always-local, anysphere.cursor-resolver, and anysphere.cursor-retrieval. …

Hey, this is a known Windows issue. retrieval-always-local crashes with 0xC0000005 because of a regression in cursor-socket. Two workarounds: Fix cursor-socket Open Command Prompt as admin: cd "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\cursor\resources\app\extensions\cursor-socket" xcopy dist out\ /E /I If Curs…

Extension host (retrieval-always-local) crashes repeatedly on Windows

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Extension host (retrieval-always-local) crashes repeatedly on Windows

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