Spawn was aborted

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Is this a known bug for long running chats “spawn was aborted”

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Hi @Ravi_V,

The “spawn was aborted” error typically occurs when the connection between your Cursor client and the server is interrupted while the agent is executing a tool call (like running a shell command or searching files). In long-running chats, this can happen due to the increased context size causing requests to take longer or hit timeouts.

To help look into this further, could you share a few details?

  1. Request ID from the failing chat turn — you can find this by clicking the three-dot menu on the message and copying the request ID. More details here: Reporting Bugs

  2. Does starting a new chat resolve the issue?

In the meantime, starting a fresh chat when you hit this error is the quickest workaround — long conversations can accumulate a lot of context, and a new chat resets that.

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hi Nohit –

requuest id 69429794-93ab-4b53-@##@@#@##@2ce

yes i am able to run commands when i open a new chat. but the issue is getting the complete context to that new chat from my long running chat

Thanks

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Thanks for the request ID. I can confirm this was caused by the conversation growing too large over time, which is expected behavior for very long chats.

To preserve context across new chats, the best approach is Project Rules – you can create .cursor/rules files in your project to store architectural decisions and key context that every new chat automatically inherits. Combined with @file and @folder references to pull in relevant code, a fresh chat can get up to speed quickly without needing the full conversation history.

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Thanks Mohit – curious when you look at the request id, what do you see?? are you able to get the details of the chat? prompt etc?

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From the request ID, I can see some general diagnostic information about the request — enough to confirm that the issue was related to the conversation size, as we discussed.

I’m not able to see the conversation content, such as prompts or responses. This doc will be helpful to understand it in detail - Privacy & Data Governance

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Thans Mohit, hopefully gets fixed in future versions!!