My agent keeps saying it is the start of the conversation

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

My agent keeps saying it is the start of the conversation. I keep prompting but it just thinks a bit, then it start summarizing the chat even though we are only on 25% context usage, and then it says the conversation has just started even though we are 3 prompts in. (see image) I got it to work once in this conversation but even when starting a new agent it happens and just ignores me.

Steps to Reproduce

Request id: c0c6b204-0a29-42eb-9099-6f84a206cc35

Expected Behavior

the agent should interpret my question and do its thing instead of ignoring everything that happened

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.6.14 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: eb1c4e0702d201d1226d2a7afb25c501c2e56080
Date: 2026-03-08T15:36:54.709Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

For AI issues: which model did you use?

i tried with sonnet 4.6 and auto

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hey, this is a known bug with chat summarization. After summarization triggers, the agent can lose track of the conversation and start treating old messages like new ones.

Your build (v2.6.14, March 8) is from right before the fix shipped. Update to the latest version via Help > Check for Updates, and that should fix it.

For now, if it happens again, the quickest workaround is to start a new chat. You can use @ mentions to pull in the relevant files.

Similar reports: here and here.

Let me know if it still happens after updating.

Hey Dean,

Thank you for responding. The update did not fix anyting, but I messed around and eventually it stopped by itself when I tried different work. Now I noticed that it only seems to happen when I include the cloudinary url in the prompt. That url points to an image.

Like this link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Image_created_with_a_mobile_phone.png

It only happens when I copy paste the url from the browser directly into the chat. When typing the url manually it does not happen.

I tested and it seems that any url pointing to any internet image will make the agent very confused, causing immediate chat summarizing, and then trying random stuff. Mixing the link with other things in the prompt does not solve it.

Example of it: 0cea9664-9db3-43b5-834b-40a8a0c4dab4

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