Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I’m trying to use a custom openai compatible provider. This looks like a bug in how Cursor is constructing the request to send to the AI provider The error is saying that the API request being sent is malformed. Specifically…

Hey, this is a known BYOK bug when a custom base URL is set. In this case, the backend builds the payload in the Responses API format (input plus the flat tools format), but sends it to /v1/chat/completions, which expects the Chat Completions format (messages plus {type: "function", function: {...}})…

It's a communication error between Cursor and the Openai compatible provider

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It's a communication error between Cursor and the Openai compatible provider

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