Grepping- tool hanging issue?

I keep having issues where i have to reload the whole vscode instance to be able to continue a thread. Stopping and writing continue doesn’t work.

Also when it dose reload a couple like a couple of the most recent ai tasks in the command line (like what it was stuck on) is gone.

Mostly using composer 2 but gpt 5.5 does it too.

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Version: 3.2.16
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 3e548838cf824b70851dd3ef27d0c6aae371b3f0
Date: 2026-04-28T21:07:47.682Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.17.0-22-generic
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On top of that when i reload my chat history is reordered.

I’m experiencing the grep tool hanging issue as well. Subagents are hanging too.

Version: 3.2.16 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 3e548838cf824b70851dd3ef27d0c6aae371b3f0
Date: 2026-04-28T21:07:47.682Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Also, Agent sessions keep starting with “Warming up…” for some unknown reason.

Yeah 'im sure i had a sub-agent crash too.

3 May and I am having the exact same symptoms, beginning a few days ago. I am a heavy Cursor user and this is making the tool very difficult to be productive with. It doesn’t seem to matter whether I am using Composer 2 or a Claude model.

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known bug. The grep/search tool can sometimes hang in a tool call and the agent can’t get out of that state. The only way forward is to reload the window. This overlaps with something we’re already tracking, so I can’t share an ETA for a fix yet.

To help us match your sessions to logs, it’d be useful to grab the Request ID for one hang:

  • In the chat where it hung: top-right chat menu > Copy Request ID
  • Paste it here (from anyone who hits it next)

A couple quick questions:

  • Does the hang happen right when grep starts, or after a few successful tool calls in the session?
  • @j-173 / @hadams42, are you also on 3.2.16? And what OS is @hadams42 using?

About side effects after reload (mixed chat history, last shell commands disappearing), that’s expected. Any in-progress terminal operations are lost on reload window, and chat order is restored from local state. If you can reproduce this reliably even without a hang, let me know and we’ll look at it separately.

I have been having the same issue, but whenever I see my cursor chat trying to do a grep, it freezes at that point and eventually crashes my AWS instance. I have fixed this issue by turning off “Index Repositories for Instant Grep”, but this option seems to be automatically turned on whenever I open up my computer at the beginning of the day. I believe this is because the Index New Folders/Index Repositories for Instant Grep is very slow on cloud-mounted storages which is what I use to store my files. Is there a better solution to this problem besides me turning off Index New Folders and Index Repositories for Instant Grep?