"Review next file", but no changes made when I clicked in to the file

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

It keeps saying “Review next file” at the bottom of my every file, but when I clicked in to the Jupyter notebook no changes was made.

Steps to Reproduce

I don’t know

Expected Behavior

“Review next file” shouldn’t exist if there’s no changes made in that file

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.43
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 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the report.

This is a known issue. The “Review next file” indicator can sometimes stay on even when there are no actual changes. We’re investigating.

To help the team debug this, could you share:

  1. The Request ID from the chat session where this happened (click the context menu in the top right of the chat, then select “Copy Request ID”).
  2. Were you using Agent mode when this happened?
  3. Had you previously made any AI-assisted changes to the notebook that you accepted or rejected?

Restarting Cursor might temporarily clear the stale review indicator.

I found that the issue seems to stem from Cursor’s diff UI components (e.g., “Apply/Undo” buttons) isn’t displaying correctly in the rendered jupyter notebook window; and restarting does not help this issue.

However, these UI components function well in the text editor. So you can just open the “.ipynb” file with build-in text editor and then clear the stale status.

Hey, thanks for the extra info about the text editor workaround. It really helps other users.

Good news: the team has fixed the issue with inline diffs in Jupyter notebooks. The fix should be included in the next Cursor release.

For now, please keep using your workaround and open .ipynb files in the built-in text editor, where the Apply and Undo buttons show up correctly.

After the next update, please check if the issue is fixed in the rendered notebook view. If it’s still happening, let us know.