For some reason Cursor stops creating and writing files.
I have to manually type “continue”. I say “for some reason” because it is entirely opaque. If I ask Cursor “why have you stopped” then it ignores the question and just continues. If I search the web for similar issues I see the forums awash with users struggling with Cursor.
There is never any feedback from the developers and there is no guidance on how to get Cursor to behave.
With traditional software debugging was pretty straight-forward. You understood the state of the application and could trace a path that lead to the problem state. With Cursor it seems that there is this great mystery - it has stopped working and nobody knows why. The developers don’t seem to care, there is never feedback on the forums.
It’s so opaque that I can’t even say which agent Cursor is currently using. I can’t determine if there are any settings that make it pause (without any UI buttons) and stop working.
Yet still the Cursor IDE rushes forwards to deliver new features, even while users struggle with bugs that make the product unusable.
This seems, to me, to be the hallmark of AI driven engineering. Move fast, but when stuff breaks there is no way to debug it.
Steps to Reproduce
Well that’s the problem. I’m just asking Cursor a prompt “implement this mapping and add avatar support to NPCs”. You don’t even tell me what agent I’m using. It seems impossible to reproduce and I’m betting you don’t even bother trying. Why else are forums full of ignored bug reports?
Expected Behavior
I expect Cursor to write files and then ask me to review and accept them at the end.
This also may be of help: When I restarted the plan in agent mode cursor was out of focus and the pop-up said awaiting approval for edits. I can see this when I switch to agent view. See image.
Was able to get it to realize it was stuck and it went off using power-shell to finish the task. Interesting. Seems it lost the tool-call ability to save files and got stuck. It wasn’t pretty but it did get the task done!
That continue option stems back as far as 1.4, todays version of Cursor is just the old version patched with bugs. I wish they would do a complete rewrite.
It looks more like it’s not seeing the out out form terminal and that a bug that comes Long every other date. I maybe wrong tho. If it it stopping in terminal you can open the terminal and press enter a few times and it fixes it however it will some times not see the output form the terminal to avoid that issue you can press up then re run the command.
You don’t see the roll back button option per convo? The send prompt button turns into a type of revert button. It reverts the codebase back to this point in time. I noticed this system isn’t always functional and suggest duplicating the codebase local and storing in GitHub (but I’m sure you already do that)
this forum is likely the best place for understanding what versions are best. Also don’t expect new software to perfect a codebase before shipping. Imagine they are building large Trojan horses and inspection inside is most beneficial. Plus, never updating just because a pop suggests you become a beta tester to a new version! Always wait.
I have found that problems such as this are almost always the result of a bad plug-in. Launch cursor with plug-ins disabled on startup. If your problem goes away, then you know what the issue is. You just have to go one by one through your plug-ins until you figure out which one is causing the hangup.
