Port forwarding requiring PAT

Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When trying to forward a port in “ports” section, cursor requires the github login and then, requires a PAT from github, when adding the PAT number, it gives an error. Why is this happening? On the other IDE, it does not require the PAT

Steps to Reproduce

open an app in localhost
go to ports
forward a port
login to github

Expected Behavior

not the need of PAT

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

4

Could you upgrade to Cursor 2.1? An earlier version had an issue with the authentication APIs, which caused GitHub to fallback to PAT authentication.