Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear) Describe the Bug I connected both my GitHub and GitLab repositories to my Cursor account. However, I had already noticed that the GitLab integration seems less robust compared to GitHub. Now that automations…

Same issue my side, just logged a bug/support ticket this morning! Hope it gets fixed soon, can’t wait to use Automations!

Hi @danieldpreez Do you have a link to the bug report? Thanks

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear) Describe the Bug When trying to do a test execution (or any actual execution) of automations I am getting this unauthenticated error: Failed to start background composer: [unauthenticated] Error. When I go …

Hey there. Thanks for flagging this! I ran into the same thing last night and reported it as a bug to the team. I’ve attached your report and will update here when there’s progress. Best regards, Colin

We’re seeing the same kinda issue. We get back HTTP 400 {"success":false,"error":"Failed to start background composer: [unauthenticated] Error"} then in the run history we see Trigger · 10 Mar 2026, 10:32 am Webhook event Repository access denied The automation could not authenticate with the rep…

[Screenshot 2026-03-10 at 7.39.46 AM] Hi, Adding to this thread. I have the same issue reported by @James_Eyre ! Looking forward to a resolution!

HI @James_Eyre It was a direct email support ticket - the team informed they have logged an issue on their roadmap and they want to introduce but no ETA and it’s high on their list! I asked them to perhaps give me the link then I can post it here, and/or even respond here directly with more info!

Hey everyone, Can confirm there’s a bug with GitLab + Automations. We’re tracking this internally and I’ll share here when progress is made!

Running into the same issue. anyone having luck working around it which we wait for a fix?

[PROBLEM] Automations + Gitlab

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Colin (Colin) April 15, 2026, 11:07am 25

@Rennan_Oliveira Could you try again today? We had some Gitlab connectivity issues that should be resolved as of today. Error when attempting to connect to Gitlab

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[PROBLEM] Automations + Gitlab

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