Repro: any chat under Home hangs; named-folder chats open fine

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Recently ( after I updated to cursor 3.1.17 + installed Claude Cowork), I noticed that when I am in the ‘Agents window’ , I see multiple “home” sections and a couple named workspace sections in the sidebar. When I try to load an agent from the home section, the load never completes, and gets stuck at “Taking a little while”. If I load an agent from a named workspace, it loads successfully.

Steps to Reproduce

1.Start cursor IDE.
2. Open Agents window
3. from the sidebar, open one of the previous agents from a list under home section

Expected Behavior

agent/chat should load and allow me to continue the chat.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.1.17 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: fce1e9ab7844f9ea35793da01e634aa7e50bce90
Date: 2026-04-19T19:33:58.189Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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This is a known issue with the Glass layout (Agents Window) in the 3.1.x builds. The fix has been merged and will be included in a future stable update.

In the meantime, you can switch to the Editor layout as a workaround: open Ctrl+Shift+P, search for Toggle Editor Layout, and select it. This should let you access your chats normally.

You can also try reloading the window a couple of times (Ctrl+Shift+P > Reload Window) — in some cases this unsticks the panel.

You may find this related thread helpful: After upgrade, the Agents window is stuck on “Taking a little while”