Overleaf Workshop extension does not work with Cursor agents

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When using Overleaf Workshop as a cursor extension and load up a project and attempt to edit files in that project with a cursor agent, the cursor agent gets stuck on “Planning next moves” indefinitely. This is a long term bug that has been reported for over 1 year here: Resolve Support for Overleaf Workshop Plugin and it seems like it has interest for a lot of people that it is solved. As the thread has just been closed due to inactivity, this is a continuation of that thread.

Steps to Reproduce

Load up a porject in the cursor overleaf extension and attempt to edit with cursor agents

Expected Behavior

It should edit files as usual

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.36 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 9cd7c8b6cebcbccc1242df211dee45a4b6fe15e0
Date: 2025-11-26T03:43:48.079Z (1 mo ago)
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.3.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

All models

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, thanks for the report. Unfortunately, the issue is still happening and hasn’t been fixed.

Root cause: Cursor doesn’t support the FileSystemProvider API (virtual file systems). Overleaf Workshop uses this API to connect to Overleaf directly.

Similar reports:

The team has known about this since July 2025. It affects all FileSystemProvider extensions, not just Overleaf.

Workarounds:

  • Inline Edit Cmd+K, it may work in some cases
  • Use the LaTeX Workshop extension and work locally

I’ll pass this to the team to increase visibility.

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Thanks for the update Dean ! :slight_smile:

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