"Premium Model Upgrade Required" message does not appear until the prompt box is unfocused

Describe the Bug

“Premium Model Upgrade Required” message does not appear until the prompt box is unfocused.

Steps to Reproduce

Try a prompt with GPT-5.2 (or some similarly-restricted model), and click the green arrow button. Then click outside the prompt box and observe the message appear.

Expected Behavior

The message should appear regardless of if the prompt box is focused or not.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.43 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 32cfbe848b35d9eb320980195985450f244b3030
Date: 2025-12-19T06:06:44.644Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

N/A

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the detailed report and the screen recording!

I can reproduce this - the “Premium Model Upgrade Required” message is hidden when the prompt box has focus. I’ve flagged this to the team for review.