Recurring Inline Diffs Vanish After Initial Changes in Agent/Composer (2.3.30, Windows 11)

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Hi team,

I’m on Windows 11 with Cursor 2.3.30.

For months, granular inline diffs (per-hunk accept/reject in the editor) have been essential to my workflow on a complex project—I carefully review partial changes and iterate with the agent.

Recently, inline diffs started vanishing inconsistently:

They work properly for a number of changes in a session, but at some point on subsequent edits, they disappear—no highlights or per-hunk controls, forcing the Review panel.

In earlier 2.3.x (like 2.3.26), fixes like File > Close Workspace > Open Folder (project root) or Developer: Reload Window worked temporarily, but the issue returned quickly.

Upgrading to 2.3.30 and repeating those steps got it working again—for now—but I’ve already wasted hours troubleshooting this recurrence today.

This makes Cursor unreliable for my daily use. Is this a known state/cache bug? Any permanent fix or setting to force consistent inline diffs?

Thanks for the great tool and any help!

(Similar to older reports like No longer seeing inline diffs from composer and recent diff stability threads.)

Steps to Reproduce

Suddenly stops working

Expected Behavior

See inline diffs with accept/reject on a per change basis

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.30 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: d1289018cc3fcc395487f65455e31651734308d0
Date: 2026-01-08T05:21:38.211Z
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 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, thanks for the report.

This is a known issue, and the team is working on a fix. Similar issues with inline diffs disappearing are being tracked in our system.

For now, the workaround you already found (Close Workspace > Open Folder) is still the only way to restore the feature until the fix is out.

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I appreciate the quick response. I’ll be on the lookout for the fix.

If it helps, I have found that (Close Workspace > Open Folder) sometimes works and sometimes does not. I have not yet found a consistent set of steps to follow to bring back the inline diffs.

Thank you.

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