Slowness is the default for cursor models

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this is just an example of my Suffering with cursor lately
A 7 minutes (and I cancelled the request it could be much longer) for a simple question using Composer 2.5 which is supposed to be very fast

It is really a pain, my tasks now are taking from 20 to 30 minutes in order to finish each one!
If I would do them manually, it will take much less time than using Cursor

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Hey, thanks for the report, and sorry it’s so slow.

From the screenshot, Worked for 6m 48s isn’t the model “thinking” time. It’s the total agent runtime: searching the codebase, reading files, and maybe running a terminal command. Composer 2.5 is fast right now, so that time almost certainly went into those steps.

To figure out what actually took the time, this would help:

  • In that chat, click the Worked for 6m 48s line to expand it. Which step took the most time, search, file reading, or a terminal command? A screenshot of the expanded list would be ideal.
  • Click the three dots on your message → Copy Request ID and paste it here.
  • Your Cursor version Cursor > About Cursor.

In the meantime, a couple things that speed up requests like this:

  • For “what does X do” or “where is Y”, switch the chat mode from Agent to Ask. Ask answers without editing files and it’s noticeably faster for lookup requests.
  • Start a new chat when the thread gets long. Each turn rereads the whole thread, so long chats gradually slow down.

Also, if you’re signed into Cursor with a different email than the one on the forum, tell us which one so we check the right account. Let me know how it goes.