I’m hitting this same issue and can add a data point.
Account email: [your Cursor account email]
Platform: macOS on Apple Silicon (M4)
Grok Bot version: 0.24.0 (auto-updated from 0.18.0 the morning of Aug 21)
Timezone: [your timezone]
Symptom: First-time setup fails every attempt with the exact error
“Bot couldn’t finish setting up — Can’t reach your computer right now.
Check your connection and try again.” The agent computer has never
finished provisioning, and Settings → Beta shows no recovery options
(nothing to recover — the computer was never created).
Evidence it’s not local (checked Aug 20–21):
The assigned pod (-pod--1340.us10.cursorvm.com) returned 503 with a
valid x-anyrun-network-token header on Aug 20, and the local
sand-local-exec-daemon respawned in a loop (135+ starts that day).
No VPN interference: no Tailscale exit node, traffic egresses direct
over Wi-Fi (en0), and the cursorvm edge answers probes in ~0.2s.
Grok Bot makes only outbound connections; no firewall involvement.
Clean reinstall/update to 0.24.0 changed nothing, consistent with
staff’s note that this is server-side.
Latest failure: Aug 21, morning–midday (local time).
For AI issues: which model did you use?
Model name (e.g., Sonnet 4, Tab…)
For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled
Request ID: f9a7046a-279b-47e5-ab48-6e8dc12daba1
For Background Agent issues, also post the ID: bc-…
Additional Information
Add any other context about the problem here.
Does this stop you from using Cursor?
Yes - Cursor is unusable
Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue
The more details you provide, the easier it is for us to reproduce and fix the issue. Thanks!
It looks like your box has been recovered for a while. Going to close this thread but don’t hesitate to raise a new one if you encounter another issue.