Getting stuck waiting for approval with no 'Approve' button

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Occasionally, the ‘Accept’ button for changed file does not render leaving no options how to proceed.

My observation is that since a couple of days I get asked for approval for every single change regardless that my auto-run mode is set to ‘run everything’ . That’s annoying on tis own, but at least non-blocking.
And now occasionally but annoyingly often I get stuck like this with no option to proceed.
You can see in the screenshot the prompt status is waiting for approval. When that sort of works I get ‘Approve’ buttons on each of the files changes. Or not, as in this case.

Reloading the window doesn’t help.

Steps to Reproduce

I reproduce this in Agent auto mode.
In this particular case it’s happening during building a plan.

Expected Behavior

In auto mode with ‘auto-run: run everyhitng’, i expect that I am not asked for approval of changes.

If for whatever reason i need to be involved, i expect that the approve button renders consistently every time.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.3.41 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 2ca326e0d1ce10956aea33d54c0e2d8c13c58a30
Date: 2026-01-16T19:14:00.150Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hey, thanks for the detailed report and the screenshot. I can see the Approve buttons aren’t rendering.

This is a known issue with the review UI.

Try running cursor --disable-extensions since extensions can sometimes break rendering.

Can you share any console errors? Go to Cmd+Shift+P > Developer: Toggle Developer Tools > Console. There might be clues about what’s breaking.

The team is aware of this bug.