Taking longer than expected

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

After any request in the chat (even a very simple one), the message “Taking longer than expected…” appears and just hangs forever (5+ minutes, never finishes).
Restarting Cursor, restarting the PC, clearing cache, switching models - nothing helps.
The problem appears right from the very first message in a new chat.

Steps to Reproduce

Open Cursor.
Start a new chat.
Write any prompt (for example, “hello” or “hi”).
Press send → it gets stuck forever on “Taking longer than expected…”

Expected Behavior

The model’s response comes through normally.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

2026-02-23_06-07-11.jpg

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.5.20 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 511523af765daeb1fa69500ab0df5b6524424610
Date: 2026-02-19T20:41:31.942Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

For AI issues: which model did you use?

The situation is the same on all models.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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“Taking longer than expected” After First Prompt
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Hey, thanks for the report. Here are a few things to try and check:

  1. Run the network diagnostics: Cursor Settings > Network > Run Diagnostics. Please share a screenshot of the results here.

  2. Disable HTTP/2. Add this to your settings.json (Ctrl+Shift+P > Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)):

    "cursor.general.disableHttp2": true

    Then restart Cursor.

  3. Are you using a VPN, proxy, or a corporate firewall? If yes, please try without them.

  4. Can you reproduce this in a brand new empty folder? (File > Open Folder > pick an empty directory, start a new chat, type “hello”)

Also, next time it freezes, please grab the Request ID. Open the context menu (top right of the chat) > Copy Request ID, then paste it here. That’s the main thing we need to investigate this on the backend.

Related report with the same symptom on v2.5.20: Cursor spinner / “Taking longer than expected…” state hangs forever during file-write/edit operation

The team is aware of this issue. Let me know how the steps above go.

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Hey @deanrie
I reindexed the project database, and now everything is fine, thank you.

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Re-indexing didn’t solve the problem for me.

Many people in our company experienced this issue, and we have downgraded from version 2.5.x to 2.4.x to resolve the issue.

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This has been happening to me all day as well since I upgraded to 2.5.20 on Linux. Admittedly on a fairly long chat, but it wasn’t happening before today’s upgrade, which leads me to believe that something is amiss in the new code. I will try the ‘standard advice’ given above.

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Hey, I’m having the exact same problem, tried everything above and Cursor is unusable. I’m in a rush and can’t deal with this. Can you confirm if you’ll find a solution and when?
Thank you

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Last 1-2 days the same for me. Stuck in planning next moves etc, timing out etc, all the time. SUper slow and sluggings in general when not stuck.
Version: 2.5.25 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 7150844152b426ed50d2b68dd6b33b5c5beb73c0
Date: 2026-02-24T07:17:49.417Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

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Also experiencing the same issue past 3 days, seems to occur when running chatgpt 5.3 codex high. Seems it a bug that needs affecting. It’s likely chewing more tokens as it has to keep going back over code and rethink. Wasting money

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it works for me!

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Same here, I always get stuck because the Cursor agent freezes and shows the message ‘Taking longer than expected.’ I’m using Team Plan. Does anyone have experience fixing this?

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